Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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Wednesday, with plenty of additions to what we thought would be an edition for the five weekdays.

And YES: We were informed of the code glitch that had caused most of the concert listings in our "Ticket Alerts" to collapse into an enormous pile of words. It is repaired and is now quite readable. Thanks to an observant anonymous reader.

♪ KACEY JONES to Sing “DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR” Wednesday, Live on Radio in L.A.& Web

♪ CELTIC RADIO ONLINE: A FINE RESOURCE GETS BETTER

♪ TIME TO VOTE IN L.A. WEEKLY’S ANNUAL “BEST OF L.A.”

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√ Wednesday’s 1st News Feature...

♪ INDUSTRY ALERT: GRAMMY Submission Deadline is TODAY

Submission deadline for music for the 58th GRAMMY Awards nomination consideration is today. It will benefit you to understand how the process works, in case you recall hearing earlier this year that the date was in July. The First Round deadline to submit music via their online entry process closed July 22 for commercial recordings released between October 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015. The Final Round opened August 12, 2015 and closes August 26, 2015 for commercial recordings released between August 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015. There are other changes in rules and policies that you should know.

Here’s a link for A2IM to learn more, including how to become a GRAMMY voting member:

We have two things to tell you in this story. First, in the morning, you can catch a radio broadcast of a previous concert presented by the same producers. Then, early evening is the John Denver show. Thursday, August 27, tune in at 9 am to hear ANNALISE EMERICK and COLE CITRENBAUM make music. That show airs on The Krush 92.5 FM from Morro Bay, and streams free at www.krush925.com. That’s thanks to the radio show sponsors, Central Coast Music of Morro Bay, McPhee's Grill of Templeton, and Dr. Brian Hanratty, D.D.S, "The Singing Dentist," and the broadcast / radio webcast are produced by Cliff Stepp and The Krush.

Then, Thursday evening August 27 at 6:30 pm, you can catch the LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST from the Central Coast of the “JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE” concert. It’s a show with plenty of artists who wanted in on it, as part of the “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY” showcase series. The series uses many venues. This one comes from the Shell Cafe, 1351 Price St, Pismo Beach; 805-773-8300.

Tonight’s show is a co-production with Madeline Royal of Love Live Music. If you’re in the area, it’s no cover and all-ages. Just get there in time to get a seat. For the rest of us, the show streams FREE and live on the web, at:

http://centralcoastlive.com/watch-our-live-streams-concerts-here/

We know from previous experience that this series presents quite a nice webcast, with multiple cameras and truly superior sound. They even have provisions for you to watch it through your big flatscreen tv(!) Just go to their site in time to digest the directions for the download and hookup. Enjoying the show on your laptop, desktop or phone requires nothing in advance. But it is a little confusing because there’s no “click here to watch” button. Just be online, at the site, with the image of the screen up, and the show starts when it starts.

There’s plenty more on this prolific multi-venue Central Coast concert series along with schedules of upcoming live (and some archived) webcasts, at:

www.songwritersatplay.com

Even if you’re at a music venue in person Thursday night, this one starts early. So why not enjoy it from Cyberia until your in-person action starts?

Folksinger-songwriter AUDREY AULD always seemed as American as they come, until she spoke between songs. It was then you got the accent. Not quite mainland Australia, because it wasn’t. Audrey was from Hobart, Tasmania. Then you had to factor-in the time in Nashville, a bit of Austin, and the years on California’s Central Coast. The world lost Audrey August 9, 2015, in Stinson Beach, California.

Tributes have been printed in newspapers from The Tennessean (in Nashville) to The Mercury (in Hobart), and plenty of other places.

A Memorial Concert for Audrey – everyone invited – happens on Sunday, September 6th at the Stinson Beach Community Center, 2-6 pm, “or until the music ends.” Some of her favorite collaborators - NINA GERBER, PAM DELGADO, JERI JONES and BLAME SALLY – are taking part, and any other musician who knew her is invited to perform. See the letter from her husband Mez, below, for details.

Audrey was diagnosed with cancer last year. It is not easy thinking of the pain so happy and bright a person felt through a fast period of demise. And in the tyranny of medical expenses that is a singularly American problem, her widower has been left with medical expenses that still need to be paid (more on that, below).

Musically, Audrey was a wonder, achieving things in her adopted country that others have not, and still maintaining respect of the music industry in Oz. In addition to her own tours and making her own music, Audrey performed and was a sought-after session player on recordings with BILL CHAMBERS, KIERAN KANE, FRED EAGLESMITH, MARY GAUTHIER, DALE WATSON, KASEY CHAMBERS, CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, and others we are no doubt unintentionally omitting.

We got to know her the first time she performed live on the old “Tied to the Tracks” radio show in Los Angeles, and she brought with her the music partner she was fortunate enough to recruit for that tour, the great guitarist NINA GERBER. Audrey and her songs were a hit. She debuted her record, “Lost Men and Angry Girls” on the show in 2007. She would make return visits for more radio performance-interview sessions, with and without Nina. And she took the opportunity to sit-in on the air and play or sing backup for other guests – always unplanned and exciting and welcomed by the benefactors – because her love for music, for the making of music, and all for all those who pursued it were at the forefront of what she did.

Audrey was always a bright presence. You could feel her smile over the radio. And she was one who was as good performing live as in the studio. So it’s no slight to say she shined in the studio, where two of her albums have been nominated for awards by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

Altogether, her own discography achieved 14 records (eleven albums and three EPs) and one DVD, all on her Reckless Records label:

Audrey’s husband and beloved life partner “Mez” Mezera has organized a participatory musical memorial on September 6 on the Central Coast. Here is his letter, emailed Tuesday morning, August 25, with the details:

“Dear Friends and Fans of Audrey's,

“As many of you know by now my sweet Darlin' wife Audrey Auld passed away Sunday, August 9th.

“Everyone is invited to a Memorial Concert for Audrey on Sunday, September 6th at the Stinson Beach Community Center from 2:00 until 6:00 pm, or until the music ends.

“Deep thanks to some of her favorite collaborators - NINA GERBER, PAM DELGADO, JERI JONES and BLAME SALLY - for sharing their love and talent. There will be a stage and sound system set up so anyone who wants to play a song or two for Audrey is more than welcome. Please let me know so we can plan the timing - mez@recklessrecords.com.

“It will be potluck, so if you can bring a dish to share please do, and if you can't don't worry about it. Labor Day beach traffic can be crazy to so plan to come early.

“Also, friends of Audrey's have set up a medical expenses fund. If you would like to learn more: http://www.gofundme.com/u52axus4

The Guide’s editor adds: I haven’t been able to let go of this piece and publish it today. The realization that there will not be new opportunities to write about Audrey coming to town to perform, or releasing a new record? Those are but the places where the soul of an artist are on display, in those manifestations of unique, individual artistic expression. Those... things. Those are where we must face that someone so special that we haven’t seen in a long time has been taken from our own little part of the world. Goodbye, Audrey. If any of those ideas are true about a fabulous jam on some other plane of existence, surely the mic at center stage has opened-up for you.

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√ Returning in our Wednesday edition...
(Tuesday’s 1st News Feature)

♪ KACEY JONES to Sing “DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR” Wednesday, Live on Radio in L.A.& Web

Before you jump to a conclusion, this isn’t some opportunistic song that somebody just wrote. KACEY JONES, reigning “Sweet Potato Queen” and long successful folk singer-songwriter – especially if you make that, comedic folk singer-songwriter – is flying-in from her Nashville base to do a song she wrote and recorded several years ago.

Kacey checked-in Tuesday morning to tell us, “Legendary radio host DOUG McINTYRE has invited me to sing ‘Donald Trump's Hair’ tomorrow, Wednesday, August 26th, on the ‘McINTYRE IN THE MORNING’ show on KABC Talk Radio. I'll be on the air from 8-to-8:30 am. Pacific Time.

“If you live in the Los Angeles area, it's at 790 AM on your dial. For those outside the area, you can stream the show online at www.kabc.com or download the free i-Heart Radio app on your smart phone or tablet at: www.iheartradio.com This is an exciting opportunity for me and I want to share it with you!

“If you've not seen the new slide-show montage video of ‘Donald Trump's Hair’ I invite you to go to my website where the video is posted on my home page at: www.kaceyjones.com (because for some reason, you won't find the new video by clicking on the YouTube link). If you enjoy the video please ‘Like’ it, ‘Play’ it, and ‘Share’ it as often as possible so we can take it viral and get the attention of one of the major TV talk shows.”

Despite travel, distance, and playing gigs all over the map, Kacey Jones managed to be a frequent guest on a different and long-gone L.A. radio show, the old “Tied to the Tracks,” where she performed “Donald Trump’s Hair” before he had bloviated his way into the attention he’s been receiving lately. With Kacey’s wit, the update and her accompanying comments make this Wednesday radio gig a must-listen.

None of us can get enough Irish music. Or Scottish fiddle. Or jigs or reels or schottisches. And while we all share the nebulous assurance that everything lives somewhere on the web (the great fantasy of the second decade of the 21st century), the usual result of a web search is settling for some compromised notion of whatever it was we went looking for in the first place.

Happily, there’s the “Celtic Radio Network” on Live 365. It includes web stations named “Highlander Radio,” “Celtic Moon,” “Celt-Rock-Radio,” “SaltyDog Radio,” “Ye O' Celtic Pub,” “Celtic Dance,” and “BlueGrass Hills” (which is inclusive of the music’s Celtic roots). They’re all available at:

http://www.live365.com/genres/celtic

“Highlander Radio” won the “Best of Live365 Award” for their World Music Station category. (If nothing else, proving that “world music” isn’t all pounding on hollow logs with rocks overtop of annoying electronica.) Out of 40,000 internet radio stations, “Highlander Radio” consistently is ranked within the top 100 most listened-to stations on Live365. And that may be more significant than you realize, since Live365.com is the 4th-most listened-to Internet Radio Network on the entire web.

So it’s especially nice when word comes that some of our top local Celtic recording artists, THE NE'ER DUWELS – the Southern Cal-based quartet of Ken O'Malley, Pat D'Arcy, Bryan Dobbs and Forrest Robinson – are now on that multiplicity of Celtic online radio shows as part of the whole web music scene, worldwide.

For more information on that web network, to make requests for their playlists (or help keep on the playlist something they are currently playing), and leave reviews, they have a link you can use: http://www.celticradio.net/php/new_music.php

Congrats to THE NE’ER DUWELS on continuing success. And if you haven’t caught them performing live, you need to. More info and their schedule is at: www.neerduwels.com

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√ Returning in our Wednesday edition...
(Monday’s 1st News Feature...

♪ TIME TO VOTE IN L.A. WEEKLY’S ANNUAL “BEST OF L.A.”

Please. You could save us all from a year of bloviating bozos who are famous for being famous. Yes, we know. "The Best of L.A." feels a bit like who gets to sit at the cool kids' table and whose dad bought her a sports car when she was 18. But we all buy into it anyway because of how this town is propelled: by trying to make those who are talented into those who are popular — and getting it done before somebody else and their money makes it all about who’s rich and untalented but can be made famous-for-being-famous.

So, for the sake of all of us and our collective sanity — and as a hedge against being annoyed for another year by still more inscrutably famous dweebs who should not attain fame — for ANYTHING? Just take a few moments and do your part and assign fame and acclaim where it belongs.

Perhaps you were already among those who nominated your favorite L.A. restaurants, shops, theaters, clubs, bars, DJs, salons, spas and more. From the nominees — thousands of them — the finalists have emerged, and it's time to determine who the L.A. Weekly will crown as best of the best in our town.

Will "best chef" go to Roy Choi, Ori Menashe or Ludo Lefebvre? Is the Troubadour, the Hollywood Bowl, or the Greek Theatre L.A.'s best music venue? (Gads, they group all together without regard to size or the kinds of acts presented?) Does @bonnietsang, @hermosalocal or @letmeeatcake have L.A.'s best instagram feed? Is the best brunch found at République, Canelé or Sqirl? Is L.A.'s best spa the Burke Williams Day Spa, the Larchmont Sanctuary Spa, or LeSpa at Sofitel? Is Helen's Cycles, Golden Saddle Cyclery, or Flying Pigeon LA the superior bike shop?

Those are among the issues in what the Guide has taken to calling The Fray for Fame.

RIGHT NOW, you can vote for all your nominated favorites in each category — you really do want to, because there's an entire "Arts and Entertainment" category.

Vote at:

http://readerschoice.laweekly.com

The polls are open through Wednesday, September 9. But don't dawdle, or you'll forget about it. Only to rediscover it after it's over. The winners will be revealed in the "Best of Los Angeles issue" that hits the news racks and the cyber newsstands at www.laweekly.com on Oct 1.

It’s not often credible to say “there’s important TV this week.” This time, that’s true. It’s the 10th anniversary of HURRICANE KATRINA and the oft-forgotten double-whammy of HURRICANE RITA. There is no place more important to Americana music than New Orleans, and with so many musicians gone, the synergy has suffered. It was smashed, broken, covered in mud or washed away. It’s never recovered. New Orleans is the city its people call “The Big Easy.” It has been anything but.

Okay, the editor admits it. He’s biased when it comes to this. He was among the volunteers who went to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast just after Hurricane Katrina to help people put their lives back together. Volunteers who self-mobilized to act quickly were more effective in the initial aftermath that the emergency response establishment at the time – and it should not have been that way. Even with all the dumb, well-meaning mistakes made by volunteers, like shipping tons of bottled water from California when it was readily available in Baton Rouge – it was the volunteers who made all the difference in those first days.

The Guide’s predecessor publication carried the editor’s reports at the time of conditions in Louisiana. And also of those volunteers who dropped everything at home and at work, walking out on their comfortably, predictably ordinary lives, and just went to help. Essential volunteers brought a wide spectrum of skills. There were those who scrambled and networked to find temporary evacuation shelters for people whose homes were underwater. There were those who persuaded traumatized, still fearful, people to leave their dangerously shattered and destroyed homes because the mold spores could kill them. There were those who, regardless of background, laid ego aside to became grunt labor, to do whatever was needed. And those who had seen hell in Iraq and Afghanistan, who now came as “Veterans for Peace” and “Food Not Bombs” members, as cooks in their mobile kitchens to feed those in need. There were a few prized medical personnel. All were essential. Eventually, a National Guard unit arrived from Pennsylvania, sent by that state’s governor, and they immediately did good in the small area where they mobilized.

Throughout it all, your editor was shocked, appalled and yes, disgusted by the utter inability of the Bush administration and its “Heckuva job Brownie” rhetoric to actually do anything that mattered. He will tell you that he’s still appalled that there have never been enough resources properly applied to bringing back New Orleans and to reassessing Southern Louisiana, which continues to wash away forever into the Gulf of Mexico.

The whole story? Still, it has largely yet to be told.

Turning to the Mississippi Delta, our editor is quick to remind us of the close connection to disaster from Katrina as part of the ongoing tableau of loss. He cites some telling quotes from a tv show the Guide recommended last weekend: "It took 9,000 years for nature to make the bayous. It took people 70 years to destroy it." And this: "Imagine losing an area of land the size of a football field. Now imagine losing that, every hour, for seventy years." [As oil extraction and pipelines proliferated] the canals were dredged and the land sank, ultimately the settlements went underwater and there was nothing to protect from hurricanes and ordinary storm surges." And finally, this: "Soon there may be nothing left here but open water."

The task for TV during this full-decade anniversary week is to include appreciate and understanding of all the big post-Katrina issues that are still with us: the excruciating inability of the American government in office at the time to help the huge numbers of our fellow citizens who were devastated, and the implications of that. American citizens, and yes, a sizable population of undocumented workers who had jobs until the disaster, doing work that needed to be done, and they, too, suddenly rendered homeless, but far less able to seek or obtain needed aid, even to prevent outbreak of disease.

People who were effected by Katrina were often devastated, and in the full sense of the word, and in successive waves of the insurmountable: by the storm, and the flood, and the unmet need for aid, and the next flood, and the next storm, and the next flood, and the toxic mold that grows like weeds on the humid Gulf Coast, and the depopulation of New Orleans and its resultant near economic collapse, and what turned out to be another insult-to-injury in the debacle of “temporary housing” of shiny new travel trailers. Trailers paid-for by the US taxpayer. Tiny trailers that either (a) remained stored on many square-miles of fenced storage lots and never got delivered, at all, to displaced people rendered homeless by the storm, people who very much needed shelter; or (b) trailers that proved horrendously expensive, were hastily-manufactured, and should never have been occupied when they did reach Katrina refugees, anyway, because too many of those trailers reeked with toxic outgassing of urethane-formaldehyde foam and/or had leaky plumbing, or worst of all, leaking propane gas lines.

With an overhyped election coming, and a Congress in office that, a decade later, still hasn’t spent what’s needed to fix New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the timing for TV to examine the decade after Katrina is opportune. It’s time to pay attention If you are skeptical of that assertion, consider this – an earthquake could make Californians the next Katrina refugees. We should listen to the stories from Katrina. We must know what it takes to get through something like this. And we need to know if our political leaders have invested enough in preparedness and could handle a major disaster this time. Set your recording device before you head-out the door for work or to go enjoy an evening of live music.

HERE ARE THE UPDATED DETAILED LISTINGS for Hurricane Katrina-related coverage...
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All times are Pacific.

√√√ Wed, Aug 26 – CNN: 6-7 pm – “Katrina: the Storm that Never Stopped.” Primetime network special hosted by Anderson Cooper. “Trumped” by a bloviating politician when originally scheduled Tuesday; your cable box may not have this updated new airtime.

√√√ Wed, Aug 26 – CNN: 9-10 pm – “Katrina: the Storm that Never Stopped.” (replay.) “Trumped” by a bloviating politician when originally scheduled Tuesday; your cable box may not have this updated new airtime.

√√√ Sat, Aug 29 – Link TV / KCETL: 6-7 am – “Still Waiting: Life After Katrina.” A 2007 profile on a large New Orleans family’s struggle to return home two years later in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

√√√ Sat, Aug 29 – Link TV / KCETL: 3-4:30 pm – “Paratus 14:50.” Documentary film recalls the heroic work of the US Coast Guard following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when USCG service members rescued more than 33,500 people from impacted areas.

√√√ Sat, Aug 29 – C-SPAN2: 4:15-5:44 pm – “We’re Still Here.” Discussion with author Roberta Brandes Gratz of her book on the years following Hurricane Katrina, examining the issues that remain ten years after the storm.

√√√ Sat, Aug 29 – NatGeo: 8-10 pm – “Inside Hurricane Katrina.” A 2005 documentary examining damage in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and how it has affected residents, along with how decisions delayed help. (Made when NatGeo was independent and created documentary programing, before it was bought by Rupert Murdoch.)

√√√ Sat, Aug 29 – Link TV / KCETL: 9-10 pm – “Still Waiting: Life After Katrina.” A 2007 profile on a large New Orleans family’s struggle to return home two years later in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

√√√ Sun, Aug 30 – C-SPAN2: 11:45 am-1:14 pm – “We’re Still Here.” Discussion with author Roberta Brandes Gratz of her book on the years following Hurricane Katrina, examining the issues that remain ten years after the storm.

√√√ Sun night/early Mon, Aug 30/31 – C-SPAN2: 2:33-4 am – “We’re Still Here.” Discussion with author Roberta Brandes Gratz of her book on the years following Hurricane Katrina, examining the issues that remain ten years after the storm.

Sat, Aug 29,
WORKSHOP,
in Hollywood:
11 am-1 pm “SONGWRITING FOR FILM, TELEVISION & COMMERCIALS” with author-songwriter-producer ROBIN FREDERICK, presented by LAWIM (Los Angeles Women in Music) at SAE-LA INSTITUTE (the old Eastman Kodak Building), 6700 Santa Monica Bl, Hollywood 90038.
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This workshop presents “Tips for Writing, Recording, & Pitching in Today's Market.” Every year, the film & TV market uses over 20,000 songs, many of them by unsigned, unknown artists and bands. Join Robin Frederick, author of “Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV,” and learn how to create expressive, original songs that will work for today’s movies, TV series, and commercials.
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Find out…
√ How the title can get your song noticed.
√ Which song themes are most likely to get you a placement.
√ What universal lyrics are and why they’re so important.
√ How to make broadcast quality recordings on a budget.
√ What kinds of songs work best for commercials.
√ How to meet the needs of music libraries and get on a music supervisor’s playlist.
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There will be plenty of video examples from recent movies, TV series, and commercials so you can see and hear exactly what works and why. Bring your creative ears and your pad and pencil to what promises to be an exciting, information-packed workshop filled with ideas you can use.
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Robin Frederick has written and produced more than 500 songs for television, records, theater, and audio products. She is a former Director of A&R for Rhino Records, Executive Producer of over 60 albums, and the author of top-selling songwriting books including “Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting,” “Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV,” “Study the Hits,” and “The 30-Minute Songwriter.” Her books are used in universities and music schools all across the U.S. to teach all levels of songwriting from beginning to advanced. As the head of TAXI’s A&R/screener team, Robin has given songwriting feedback to hundreds of successful and aspiring songwriters. She has also trained industry veterans to share their own knowledge and experience with up-and-coming writers and artists. Robin is a former Vice President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy (the Grammy organization) and past President of Los Angeles Women in Music. She has written for mainstream music publications on the songwriting innovations of Nick Drake, including extensive album notes for recent re-releases of all of Nick Drake’s recordings.
More at: www.robinfrederick.com
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One lucky attendee will WIN a signed copy of Robin's book, “Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV.”
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Advance Tickets for (guaranteed seating):
$20 for LAWIM Members
$25 Student Discount (valid student photo i.d. at the door)
$30 General Public (all are welcome)
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Tix at the door, (if space permits):
$25 LAWIM Members
$30 Student Discount
$35 General Public
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Advance tix thru midnight Fri, Aug 28, at: reservations@lawim.com or call 213-243-6440.
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Free on-site gated parking lot (off Las Palmas).

Wed, Aug 26, in Pasadena:
7 pm Weekly “WINE & SONG” Concert series brings all-acoustic sets by ESCAPING PAVEMENT and EMILY ZISMAN, plus performing host BRAD COLERICK, this week making a return to Old Oak Cellars, 2620 E Foothill Bl, Pasadena (behind the massage parlor, and the two are unaffiliated, despite appearances from the sign at the street).
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Brad tells us, “Back in East Pasadena for Wine & Song with a couple of wonderful featured acts. Come cool down in the barrel room at Old Oak Cellars. Bring something to share if you like. Light snacks will be on hand, plus a fabulous array of Old Oak Cellars wines by the glass or the bottle. Next week we'll be back at Arroyo Seco Golf Course. Check the website for details: wineandsong.com .”
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$10 suggested donation

Wed, Aug 26, in Burbank:
7 pm LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD OR ALT COUNTRY in a full lineup on two stages in separate rooms at Cody's Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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All ages. A one-menu-item cover applies. Venue has a full menu & full bar. Park free across the street at Pickwick Bowl (affiliated owners).

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Wed, Aug 26, in Hollywood:
7 pm Monthly show by “THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION” presents EDDIE BERMAN with LESLIE STEVENS co-headlining the evening’s FULL LINEUP, mostly acoustic, along with the non-bluegrass TOWN IN THE CITY, at the Hotel Café, 1623 N Cahuenga Bl, Hollywood 90028; www.hotelcafe.com; 323-461-2040.
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Here’s as much of the night’s lineup as the venue published:
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♪ Thomas Buttenschon – 7 pm
♪ Town In the City – 8 pm
♪ Eddie Berman with Leslie Stevens – 9 pm; “THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION” show.
♪ not listed – 10 pm
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Tickets purchased on the venue’s web ticket page are counted for the mentioned artist only; other acts receive no compensation from that ticket sale, so their site says, “Please purchase accordingly.” (Shows that are being presold are not listed on their site’s ticket page.) One ticket is often good for the entire night, but it does not guarantee admission to another sold-out show the same evening. They do not accept credit cards at the door; they do have an ATM. Seating at The Hotel Café is very limited; tables are first come first serve and generally available only for those who order food, unless reserved by a band.
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Venue is 21+ for all patrons.
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Advance tix, more info, at:
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www.hotelcafe.com

Wed, Aug 26, in Altadena:
8 pm Top award-winning young Western star MIKKI DANIEL plays the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info www.coffeegallery.com
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Venue impresario Bob Stane says, “this is a ‘big deal’ act. only in town because of MARILYN TUTTLE's birthday. We, normally, could not get an act of this stature in the Western field. Go to our web page....” [ www.coffeegallery.com ]
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MIKKI DANIEL brings the Texas sunshine to the stage where ever she performs. She loves and lives the Western life she writes and sings about. Touted by MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHY as the “future of Western Music,” she has won Western Music Association’s “Crescendo Award” and in 2014 made history as the youngest recipient of a “Wrangler Award” with her debut CD “Gotta Be a Cowgirl.” She was a finalist in 2014 and 2015 for a bunch of nominations. The Western Music Association nominated her in 2014 for Western Swing Album of the Year and in 2015, she got the Academy of Western Artists nomination for Western Album of the Year, Western Female Entertainer of the Year, and Western Song of the Year.
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Mikki is known for her ability to spin a tale, as evidenced by her original songs on both her CD’s, “Cowgirl Swing” and “Gotta Be a Cowgirl” and her book “Girls and Gunsmoke,” along with her strong rhythm guitar, crystal-clear voice, and yodel. Whether performing a swingy, fun and toe-tapping western swing or big band tune, or a soft and haunting rendition of a familiar old cowboy song, original, or hymn, you can't help but love the personality, energy and engaging smile of this young entertainer.
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Just take a look at the unparalleled list of MIKKI DANIEL’s AWARDS:
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2014 Rural Roots Commission
* Western Swing Album - “Cowgirl Swing”
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2014 New Horizons Wrangler Award
* “Gotta Be A Cowgirl”
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Hayloft Gang National Singing Contest
* GRAND PRIZE WINNER Martin Guitar DV28
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Western Music Association:
* Crecendo Award
* Marilyn Tuttle “Best of the Best” Harmony AWARD
* Janet McBride “Best of the Best” Yodeler AWARD
* Youth Harmony AWARD
* Female Yodeler Champion AWARD
* Youth Yodeler Champion AWARD
* Swing Album of the Year Finalist
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Academy of Western Artists:
* AWA Yodeler of the Year Award
* AWA Album of the Year Finalist *AWA Song of the Year Finalist
* AWA Young Artist Finalist
* 2015 Top Five Nominee for Female Western Artist
* 2015 Top Five Nominee for Western Album of the Year Western Writers of America
* Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Song for “Cold Blue Eyes”
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North Texas Book Festival
* 2nd Place Finalist Young Adult Fiction for “Girls and Gunsmoke”
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Crossroads Gathering
* Song of the Year - “Texas Kerosene”
* Performer of the Year
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Tix, $15.

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Wed, Aug 26, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm ELI LOCKE headlines tonight’s LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD & ALT COUNTRY at the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Go early for the free dance lessons at 7:30 pm.
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Every night, they present LIVE AMERICANA / ALT OR TRAD COUNTRY / HONKY TONK music for listening and dancing – unless they’re closed when Hollywood rents the place to shoot a movie or tv show, and the place has been in hundreds of film and tv shoots over the years.
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This is L.A.’s last real honky-tonk, no cover, full bar, and friendly people who, howdy pardner, all like to dance. Go early for the free dance lessons. There’s live music EVERY night, seven nights a week; sometimes acoustic, sometimes heavy on the pedal steel or the twang, but never that annoying fahke ackscent pop-“countree” Nashvulle scene.

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Wed, Aug 26, in L.A.:
8 pm “FULL THROTTLE COMEDY” has 50 TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY FREE to see a big lineup of comics at the famous Improv, 7969 Melrose Av, L.A. 90069.
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FREE tix (second batch) still available as of Tuesday night. We posted a “Ticket Alert” on this one several days ago.
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This month, their show features STEVE BYRNE from TBS's “Sullivan and Son,” plus numerous comedy specials. If you jump right on this (Saturday morning, Aug 22) you can invite all your friends and co workers to this show that will be packed with talented comedians. This show brings surprises: last month Jeff Ross took the stage unannounced.
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There are complimentary 50 tickets to give away. Go to the site below with your name, cell phone number, and number of guests. Register at:
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www.comedymadnessshow.com
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Invitations come from Steve Byrne, who works or has worked with Comedy Central, Sullivan and Son, the Tonight Show, and more. Past guest comics at this series include Jay Leno, David Spade, Jud Apatow, Dane Cook, Chris D'elia, Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, and Anthony Jeselnik.

Wed, Aug 26, in L.A.:
9:30 pm “FACEBOOK” gives your status the long-form comedic treatment from the “UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE,” a troupe with its own theatre, UCB Franklin, 5919 Franklin Av, Los Angeles 90028; 323-908-8702; http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com
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Each week, two paying customers are randomly plucked from the audience to get their Facebook pages examined and then turned into long-form improvised comedy scenes based entirely on their profile, pictures, comments and status. (Too bad they don’t turn it into a true horror movie by revealing how Facebook robs all your personal information – with your legal “okay,” since you docilely accept al those “mandatory upgrades” – and sells it.)
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Comedy series runs every Wed. Tix for tonight are $5, at https://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/show/913

Thu, Aug 27, on WEB RADIO:
9 am ANNALISE EMERICK and COLE CITRENBAUM make music for the “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY” concert series from the California Central Coast. That show airs on The Krush 92.5 FM from Morro Bay, and streams free at www.krush925.com.
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Then, tonight at 6:30 pm, you can catch the LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST from the Central Coast of the “JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE” concert presented by “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY.” See the 6:30 listing for the url and details.

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Thu, Aug 27, in L.A.:
(all day) “MY ROCK STARS EXPERIMENTAL, VOLUME I” by HASSAN HAJJAJ, at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, 5905 Wilshire Bl, Mid-Wilshire / Hancock Park, L.A.; 323-857-6010 / 857-6000; www.lacma.org
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This is ongoing, but that doesn’t mean that any day it happens is interchangeable, because audience dynamic in an odd and awkward space can contribute – or not. Linda Komaroff, head of LACMA's Art of the Middle East department, recently acquired Moroccan artist HASSAN HAJJAJ's “My Rock Stars Experimental, Volume I” for the museum. It includes footage of nine musicians known by the artist, some more famous than others, playing against patterned fabric and wearing fantastic, comfortable-looking costumes Hajjaj made for them. Hajjaj filmed each separately but you see all of them at once, each inhabiting his or her own colorful rectangle and taking turns making music. The multichannel video currently plays in a narrow corridor on the third floor of LACMA's Ahmanson building, by the elevators. It's awkward to see it in that space but interesting, too, because it seems indicative of the still-marginal place contemporary Middle Eastern art holds in most U.S. museum collections. (Acknowledgement to LA Weekly for part of this info.)
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Runs every Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun, inside LACMA.
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Speaking of “ROCK”... while you’re there...
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There’s also this: “Levitated Mass” by Michael Heizer. A critic for LA Weekly says it “is where modern art and the Protestant work ethic weirdly intersect, which is to say that a 340-ton granite megalith painstakingly transported over two weeks from Riverside sits in a 456-foot-long slot, and you get to contemplate it all. Clearly, your kid couldn't do that. Forty-five years in the making – from concept to construction to carefully avoided clusterfu*k -- it's whatever you want it to be. Process art? Yes. Land art? Yes. Cubism? Well, yes, depending on where you're standing when you look at it. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of philanthropist and children's activist Nancy Daly, which makes perfect sense given the fact that many creative discoveries come from children playing with rocks.”
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For our part? Having negotiated plenty of large granite megaliths from the underside and in lofty places, we appreciate a good rock. But the obscene amount of money it cost to bring this here? You’ve got to be kidding. That kind of money could have conserved a gallery full of baroque masterpieces. And still paid for some bus rides to take kids to the mountains to see rocks. Any archaeologist will tell you that no object can be properly appreciated or understood outside its cultural context. Including a rock incongruously wedged between two pylons.
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It’s on the LACMA Resnick North Lawn, 5905 Wilshire Bl, L.A.

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Thu, Aug 27, extra matinee, in SGV (Sierra Madre):
2:30 pm “ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE” is a big time music-filled show at the charming little Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W Sierra Madre Bl, Sierra Madre; 626-355-4318; www.sierramadreplayhouse.com
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This is the fastest ticket-seller in the Playhouse’s history. To accommodate the extraordinary demand, additional matinee performances have been added. Don’t dawdle getting tickets to this one. (The Guide” News Feature that announced the production’s opening night is re-run here.)
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It’s a real, live stage MUSICAL, a theatrical production focusing on the vocal magic of PATSY CLINE, you’ll experience how she evoked the heartbreak and longing that have made her songs country and pop classics. Written by Ted Swindley, directed by Robert Marra, with musical director Sean Paxton, it’s a Sierra Madre Playhouse production starring CORI CABLE KIDDER and NIKKI D’AMICO.
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“Always….Patsy Cline” depicts the legendary singer backed by a live band performing twenty-seven of her greatest hits in this jukebox musical. Patsy Cline (1932-1963) was one of the most popular and influential vocalists of the 20th Century.
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Although most associated with country music, she was the first female crossover artist, also singing traditional pop, torch songs, rockabilly, honky-tonk, country swing, and gospel. The first female solo artist admitted to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Patsy was also included among “The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll” by VH1, “The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time” by Rolling Stone, and “The 40 Greatest Women of Country Music” by CMT.
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She first appeared on radio in Winchester, VA in 1947. In 1954, country star Jimmy Dean brought her aboard as a regular on the radio show “Town and Country Jamboree” in Arlington, VA. In 1955, she began appearing on television, on the TV version of “Grand Ole Opry” and on “Ozark Jubilee.”
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But it was her sensational success on “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts” in 1957 that truly launched her as a national figure. Godfrey’s show, a precursor of competitions like “Star Search” and “American Idol,” also launched Ann-Margret and Pat Boone, among others.
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“Always…Patsy Cline” is based on a real incident that occurred in 1961. Super-fan Louise Seger befriends Cline before a concert in Houston. After the show, Louise takes her home, cooks her breakfast and appears with her on a local radio broadcast. The two maintain a correspondence, writing each other letters until Cline’s untimely death in a Tennessee plane crash in 1963. The star closed each of her letters to Seger, “Always…Patsy Cline.”
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CORI CABLE KIDDER portrays PATSY CLINE. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, she toured with IN THE MOOD and sang at Tokyo Disney for a year. Coming to L.A., she appeared in+ “The Producers” and with SWING DAMES, performing the music of the Andrews Sisters.
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NIKKI D’AMICO plays Louise. Her extensive musical theater credits include National Tours of “Evita,” “Cats,” “A Chorus Line,” “The Fantasticks,” “Chaplin,” “West Side Story,” and more. Most recently, she appeared with Pacific Resident Theatre in its Ovation-nominated production of “A View from the Bridge.”
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ROBERT MARRA directs. In addition to numerous New York credits, his local shows include “The World Goes Round,” “Once on this Island,” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Into the Woods,” “Chess in Concert,” “The Devil and Daisy Jane,” “A Chorus Line,” and many more. He is also a choreographer.
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TED SWINDLEY is the playwright. He was the Founding Artistic Director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. He also wrote “Stories My Grandmother Told Me.” Fans of Patsy Cline’s music will be in musical heaven as they’ll hear, performed live, twenty-seven of her greatest hits, including “Walkin’ After Midnight” (the Godfrey show hit), “Sweet Dreams” (a signature tune for Cline, although originally a hit ten years earlier by Faron Young), “Crazy” (written for her by WILLIE NELSON), “I Fall to Pieces,” “She’s Got You,” “Your Cheating Heart,” and many more.
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“Always…Patsy Cline” debuted in 1988. It is one of only two stage productions about the singer licensed and authorized by The Estate of Patsy Cline. In addition to affording a revue of great songs, “Always…Patsy Cline” is a heartwarming story of an enduring friendship.
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“Always… Patsy Cline” runs July 31-Sep 13, 2015, on this schedule: Fri’s & Sat’s at 8 pm, Sun’s at 2:30 pm. Additional matinees have been added at 2:30 pm on Thu, Aug 27; Sat, Aug 29; Sat, Sep 5; Sat, Sep 12, and Sun, Sep 13.
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Tix: $30 gen’l. Seniors (age 65+) $27. Students (ages 13-21) $20. Children age 12 and under, $17. Call for tix. Ample free parking behind theatre.

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Thu, Aug 27, in Altadena:
3 pm MOLLY'S REVENGE plays a very unusual Thursday matinee at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info www.coffeegallery.com
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MOLLY'S REVENGE performs traditional Celtic music played with a hard, driving edge on bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, mandola, bodhran, & guitar. They'll leave your heart pounding, your feet tapping, and your hands clapping for more.
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Born out of the timeless tradition of Celtic music sessions, Molly's Revenge is a band with a genuine affection for the music they play; their enthusiasm for the music carries over in all their live and recorded performances. The classic combination of solo instruments such as the Highland bagpipes, whistles, fiddle, and mandolin against a backdrop of guitar accompaniment guarantees an enjoyable and memorable listening experience.
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Equally at home in front of audiences several thousand strong or in small intimate venues, Molly's Revenge has performed at many of the top folk festivals in the USA and countless private concerts. Internationally, they have performed at prestigious events in Australia and China.
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The band's skilled musicianship and boundless enthusiasm for its music guarantees enjoyable entertainment for people of all ages. Their arrangements of traditional Celtic jigs and reels brings these dance tunes up to date with a driving, hard-edged accent in a way that will leave your feet tapping, your hands clapping, and your voices shouting for more.
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"Revered in California as one of its most energetic, exciting and innovative bands." --Shay Black, of the legendary Black family. "They bring to the music a vital and joyous creativity that excites even the hardest of hearts." --John Doyle, founding member of Solas. "The instruments are traditional... but the wild passion they exhibit is thoroughly modern." --Metro Santa Cruz (CA). "There is an engaging freshness and yet an impressive maturity in their playing." – Mick Moloney, National Heritage Award recipient.
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Plenty more at: www.mollysrevenge.com
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Tix, $18.

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Thu, Aug 27, in OC (Laguna):
5 pm Grammy-noms LISA HALEY & THE ZYDEKATS play the ongoing daily “SAWDUST FESTIVAL” at the Festival of the Arts Grounds, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd, Laguna Beach 92651.
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Full lineup of music acts and events for the day and the summer season are at:
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http://sawdustartfestival.org/festivals/
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary as a globetrotting band, Grammy-noms LISA HALEY & THE ZYDEKATS are the only Americans ever to play the Folk Festival in Palau, among their many accomplishments. Check ’em out, in action, at:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHKUzjggg4 plus, Lisa’s “Chicken Fiddler” video has reached the new Nickelodeon TV show, “React To That!” at: www.nick.com/react-to-that

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Thu, Aug 27, in Long Beach:
5-8 pm KEN O'MALLEY plays his weekly residency of authentic and original Irish music at the Auld Dubliner, 71 S Pine Av, Long Beach 90802; 562-437-8300.

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Thu, Aug 27, in Burbank:
5-10 pm LIVE MUSIC in a full lineup starts early on Thursdays on two stages in separate rooms at Cody's Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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A one-menu-item cover applies. Venue has a full menu & full bar.

Thu, Aug 27, in Oak Park (Agoura Hills area):
6:30 pm FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, a “Harmonic Alternative Folk” duo, plays a rare Thursday as a “Dinner & Song” night at “Russ & Julie’s House Concerts” series in Oak Park (Agoura Hills / Westlake Village area). Reservations get directions at: 818-707-2179 or by email at: rsvp@houseconcerts.us
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Shawn & Jordyn of the duo FLAGSHIP ROMANCE are based in Florida. But they’re in the area, which prompts Russ & Julie to organize something. They tell us, “So, we are hosting a very special, intimate, weekday dinner performance.”
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They continue, “Flagship Romance represents more than just an opportunity to hear two individually talented performers using their abilities to create something bigger than themselves. It is an invitation to witness an actual couple with a shared passion and chemistry, doing what they love with whom they love, with a desire to change the world one song at a time. Flagship Romance consists of real-life lovers, singers, and songwriters Shawn Fisher and Jordyn Jackson. To describe their sound, they have coined the term ‘Harmonic Alternative Folk.’ Anchored by Fisher's unique guitar playing, Flagship Romance compositions are centered around and feature the couple's unclassifiable vocal blend.”
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“This is a chance to have ‘dinner with the band’ and support a couple of delightful, up-and-coming young musicians who happen to be traveling through our area. Russ & Julie's House Concerts has been sharing quality music for nearly 19 years now and we are proud to support so many talented musicians.
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More information about Flagship Romance can be found at: www.flagshipromance.com
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The particulars, to go? “The suggested donation for the evening is just $10 per person, payable in cash at the door. All the money goes to the performers. We will also have a "potluck" style dinner, for which we will be providing lasagna. Dinner is called for 6:30 pm. The single-set show will begin at 7:30 pm. We expect to end the evening around 8:30 pm. LIMITED SEATING.”
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To take part, contact Russ & Julie promptly at: rsvp@houseconcerts.us

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Thu, Aug 27, LIVE WEBCAST from the Central Coast:
6:30 pm “JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE” is a show with plenty of artists who wanted-in on it, as part of the “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY” showcase series from the Shell Cafe, 1351 Price St, Pismo Beach; 805-773-8300.
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Performing will be BEN DAVIS (of Unfinished Business), JEFFREY PINE, JOHN ZIPPERER, STEVE KINDEL (it's his birthday), BRIAN HANRATTY, JOHN ALAN CONNERLEY, HOLLY ANN LEWIS, PI JACOBS, JOSEPHINE JOHNSON, PJ ROBERTSON, CLIFF STEPP, and performing host STEVE KEY.
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This is one of several “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY” venues on the Central Coast. Tonight, it’s a co-production with Madeline Royal of Love Live Music.
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The show streams FREE and live on the web, at:
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http://centralcoastlive.com/watch-our-live-streams-concerts-here/
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This is quite a webcast, with multiple cameras and truly superior sound. They even have provisions for you to watch it through your big flatscreen tv! Their site explains all that. But it is a little confusing because there’s no “click here to watch” button. Just be online and the show starts when it starts.
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More on this prolific multi-venue Central Coast concert series and upcoming live (and some archived) webcasts, at:
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www.songwritersatplay.com

Wed, Aug 27, in Long Beach:
7 pm LEFTOVER CUTIES play the summer concert series at the Aquarium of the Pacific, 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach 90802; 562-590-3100.

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Thu, Aug 27, in Burbank:
7 pm LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD OR ALT COUNTRY in a full lineup on two stages in separate rooms at Cody's Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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Thu, Aug 27, in SaMo:
7-10 pm JEFFERSON STARSHIP plus PURPLE MOUNTAINS MAJESTIES play the 31st Annual "TWILIGHT SUMMER CONCERT" series on the Santa Monica Pier brings a variety of acts to these long-running FREE, all-ages summer events on the iconic Santa Monica Pier.
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PAUL KANTNER founded JEFFERSON AIRPLANE in 1965. THE AIRPLANE were the biggest rock group in America during the 1960s and the first San Francisco band to sign a major record deal, paving the way for other legends like GRATEFUL DEAD & JANIS JOPLIN. They headlined the original WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL in 1969 and like THE BEATLES with whom they are critically compared, lasted a mere 7 years ... though their influence and impact on rock music continues well into the 21st century. In 1974 Mr. KANTNER created JEFFERSON STARSHIP and again enjoyed chart-topping success. PAUL, & JEFFERSON AIRPLANE were inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year as PINK FLOYD.
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JEFFERSON STARSHIP, the name created by Paul for his 1971 solo debut "Blows Against The Empire" recording, has endured 40 years as one of rock's most legendary bands. That recording was the first and only to ever be nominated for literary science fiction’s Hugo Award … a stellar achievement. Co-founder DAVID FREIBERG also started the legendary QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE, the Fillmore era San Francisco band who often shared the bill with THE DEAD & THE AIRPLANE). David is a world famous singer, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was also a member of JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, and co-wrote one of JEFFERSON STARSHIP's all-time biggest hits, “Jane” – which he performs.
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DONNY BALDWIN became part of the San Francisco music scene in the early 70s growing, up there. From 1973 to 1978 Donny was with the "Elvin Bishop" Band. During this time he toured and recorded six albums, which included the #1 hit single, "Fooled Around and Fell In Love". From 1981 to 1989, Donny was a member of JEFFERSON STARSHIP. In January 1994, he joined the JERRY GARCIA BAND. He has toured, recorded and played with Artista such as KENNY LOGGINS, PABLO CRUISE, CHUCK BERRY, VAN MORRISON, RONNIE MONTROSE, GREGG ALLMAN, HEART, LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD, 38 SPECIAL and EDDIE MONEY.
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CHRIS SMITH joined JEFFERSON STARSHIP in 1998, instantly winning the job of keyboardist, having toured with THE SUPREMES and LOU BEGA. Chris has gone on to place music in film and television including the #1 rated series “CSI.” In 2000 he assumed the seeming impossible task of playing piano AND (synth) bass simultaneously … a feat only duplicated by the legendary RAY MANZAREK of THE DOORS. Chris has been keyboardist longer than any in the band’s fabled history.
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CATHY RICHARDSON joined JEFFERSON STARSHIP in 2008, and anchors the historic ‘role’ made famous by GRACE SLICK. She is an award winning music artist, graphic artist, and clothing designer. Her professional credits include fronting her own successful rock band, producing and releasing seven albums on various indie record labels. She was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Art Direction of her band's 2003 release, “The Road to Bliss,” which also received two DIY Awards (Do It Yourself in Film, Books and Music) for Album Art of the Year and Producer of the Year. Her latest release, “Delusions of Grandeur,” topped the 2007 DIYs when she won both Album and Producer of the Year. She portrayed Janis Joplin in the original Off Broadway cast of the hit show “Love, Janis” and also in Chicago, Sag Harbor, NY, San Francisco, Phoenix and Tucson.
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JUDE GOLD is an acclaimed lead guitarist -joining in 2012 for a 10 country, three-month international tour - replacing longtime lead player Slick Aguilar who recently underwent a liver transplant. Jude also tours with contemporary stars MIGUEL MIGS, STU HAMM and JGB (Jerry Garcia's Band) before that. He is also a “professor” at the acclaimed Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles.
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Frankly, the series has been getting less and less Folk-Americana-friendly and much more alt-pop the past few seasons. So the Guide is listing only a few of its 2015 offerings and encouraging you to read the write-ups so you won't be disappointed because you didn't go, or did.
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PARKING is always a challenge at these concerts. Use the link at the bottom to find the best rates. If you can, bike or walk instead. Or ride transit. There's the Big Blue Bus, including Line 10 that comes-in from downtown L.A. (behind Union Station.) Metro bus lines 4, 33, 20, 534, 704, 720, and 733 all stop within walking distance of the pier. Plan your trip at metro.net.
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Thu, Aug 27, in Hollywood:
7 pm MEIKO headlines a FULL LINEUP, mostly acoustic, at the Hotel Café, 1623 N Cahuenga Bl, Hollywood 90028; www.hotelcafe.com; 323-461-2040.
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♪ Banta – 7 pm
♪ Meiko – 8 pm
♪ Boh Doran – 9 pm
♪ Meg Olsen – 10 pm
♪ Silver Rose – 11 pm
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Tickets purchased on the venue’s web ticket page are counted for the mentioned artist only; other acts receive no compensation from that ticket sale, so their site says, “Please purchase accordingly.” (Shows that are being presold are not listed on their site’s ticket page.) One ticket is often good for the entire night, but it does not guarantee admission to another sold-out show the same evening. They do not accept credit cards at the door; they do have an ATM. Seating at The Hotel Café is very limited; tables are first come first serve and generally available only for those who order food, unless reserved by a band.
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Venue is 21+ for all patrons.
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Advance tix, more info, at:
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www.hotelcafe.com

Thu, Aug 27, FREE, in L.A.:
7:30-10 pm “SONGWRITER SERIES” at The Wilde Thistle pub and art gallery, tonight featuring PATRICIA BAHIA, CHRISTINE ROSANDER, and HOLLY LONG, at the Wilde Thistle, 3456 Motor Av, Los Angeles 90034; 310-730-6208.
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PATRICIA BAHIA tells us, it’s “one of my last L.A. area shows before the official release of ‘Save Your Heart’ [her new album] in October. And I will have the fantastic guitarist STEVE POSTELL playing with me.”

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Thu, Aug 27, FREE, in L.A.:
8 pm THE WAIFS , that marvelous Australian folk band, plays the free summer concert series at Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park, 2230 W 6th St, Los Angeles 90057; 213-384-5701.
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Hailing from Albany (Western Australia that is), the Waifs are an Australian folk-rock band who have been playing together since 1992. They toured Australia with Bob Dylan in 2003, and he subsequently invited them to join him on his North American tour. They’re really quite good and a lot of fun. Years ago, they performed live on L.A. radio, on the old “Tied to the Tracks” show,” to the delight of listeners. There’s plenty about them, including music samples, at: www.thewaifs.com
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Pre-concert activities begin at 6:30 pm with the KidZone and more. Main stage concert begins at 8 pm. “Taste of Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles” brings food vendors Peaches Smokehouse and Coolhaus. Or bring your own picnic dinner. (But no alcohol in the park.)
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Ride the Metro Purple Line subway to MacArthur Park Station then walk around the small lake and you’re right there.
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Bring lawn chairs or a blanket, and a picnic (no alcohol allowed in the park, and that’s enforced with expensive citations) or grab a bite to eat from the “Taste of Levitt Pavilion Pasadena” (rotating food trucks). Arrive early to enjoy a pre-show performances on the little “Grassy Hill Side Stage,” and check out the local “Community Partners” while the little ones enjoy the KidZone.
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Thu, Aug 27, in Newhall (Santa Clarita):
8 pm DAVE STAMEY plays the OutWest Concerts series at the Repertory East Playhouse, 24266 Main St, Newhall 91321.
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Dave tells us, “This will be filmed for television, and while we believe it is sold out, you might give Bobbi Jean Bell a holler at the website.” www.outwestmktg.com
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Venue opens at 7 pm and has a cocktail lounge, Performance begins at 8.
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Dave has won ’purt near every award there is in Western music. Learn about him at: www.davestamey.com

Classic music never gets any more accessible than this! Tonight, L.A. Philharmonic Conductor NICHOLAS McGEGAN takes the orchestra "From Bach to Bluegrass." Mandolinist SAM BUSH will dazzle in a set of bluegrass selections to be announced, dobro player and bluegrass legend JERRY DOUGLAS (who plays with ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION) is always the one to watch, and double-cellist EDGAR MEYER will star on GIOVANNI BOTTESINI's “Bass Concerto No. 2.” It’s rare to get these three together on stage outside of their annual full evening set at the “Telluride Bluegrass Festival” every June. The program features the beloved American orchestral work, AARON COPLAND's “Appalachian Spring,” and JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH's “Orchestral Suite No. 1.” The program also features McGEGAN, a British native who is the principal guest conductor of Pasadena Symphony.
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Tix: $15-$65, at: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B004E79C0031E2D&clickref=law_EP? REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat141031&wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_141031&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_141031

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Thu, Aug 27, in Altadena:
8 pm THE SALTY SUITES play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info www.coffeegallery.com
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The Guide has watched this act develop from its individual members’ careers, and rates them as consistently one of the best roots-music-based bands anywhere. Here’s the latest from Bob Stane: "THE SALTY SUITES get better and better every time they headline at The Coffee Gallery Backstage. Exciting, inspiring and a fine show of wonderful music and wit. Good for the eyes, good for the ears. Just the right seasoning. Returning to the scene of the crime will be those merry makers of music and mirth, That's right The Salty Suites. This time they they bring with them riches... not from the orient or strange lands, but from the recording studio. That's right folks, the NEW CD HAS ARRIVED! Fresh off the presses, the Suites bring you their 3rd Recorded project, "We All Go Down Together". They will have plenty of these flat round discs for your listening pleasure. The Salty Suites are Scott Gates on Mandolin, The lovely Chelsea Williams on Guitar and the also stunningly rugged Chuck Hailes on Bass, all on vocals and high on energy, this band will leave you smiling and wanting more. Come have a coffee, a tasty snack and settle in for a night of great music. Come lend us your ears! PLUS..... ....a special act that will be nifty. Just show up. This act will wow you. Really.”
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Also take note of the venue’s unheard-of 3 pm Thursday matinee today, with a different act.
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Thu, Aug 27, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm ROB STALEY plays the first of two nights headlining the nightly LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD & ALT COUNTRY at the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Go early for the free dance lessons at 7:30 pm.
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Every night, they present LIVE AMERICANA / ALT OR TRAD COUNTRY / HONKY TONK music for listening and dancing – unless they’re closed when Hollywood rents the place to shoot a movie or tv show, and the place has been in hundreds of film and tv shoots over the years.
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This is L.A.’s last real honky-tonk, no cover, full bar, and friendly people who, howdy pardner, all like to dance. Go early for the free dance lessons. There’s live music EVERY night, seven nights a week; sometimes acoustic, sometimes heavy on the pedal steel or the twang, but never that annoying fahke ackscent pop-“countree” Nashvulle scene.

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Thu, Aug 27,
Not Music but Cool,
in Pasadena:
8-9:30 pm "DESIGNING THE FUTURE: TYRANNY OF THE ROCKET EQUATION" presented by Astronaut Dr. Don Pettit in Beckman Auditorium on the Caltech campus in Pasadena. Park free in either lot at the S end of Michigan Av, S off Del Mar.
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Wanna know why all that Star Trek transporter stuff hasn’t got us to Mars yet? Aside from the fact that “austerity” is starving the space program to death, there is some basic science that isn’t hard to grasp, but that most people have never had the chance to see. Tonight, you can fix that for yourself, at least, and enjoy the experience.
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Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center The rocket equation, a simple momentum balance that defines the performance of a rocket, holds a tyrannical grip on the design of these machines. From this equation it becomes apparent that the giant leap for mankind was not the first step on the Moon but attaining Earth orbit. A rocket ready to launch into earth orbit is 85 to 90 percent propellant and less than 2 percent useful payload. Humanity may visit other planetary surfaces but will never have thriving outposts if the paradigm of taking everything from planet Earth is kept. One possible way to break this tyranny is to use planetary resources at location for the materials needed by the hundreds of metric tons. These materials derive their utility from their bulk chemical composition or mechanical properties (rocket fuel, life support, construction materials like bricks and cement). The need to find new places to live and resources to use will eventually beckon humanity off the planet.
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NASA astronaut Dr. Don Pettit is a chemical engineer by schooling, a scientist by profession, and an explorer by heart. He is a veteran of two long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station, one space shuttle mission and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica. He has logged a total of 370 days in space on three flights.
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Presented as part of the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Lecture Series sponsored by the Keck Institute for Space Studies and is open to the public.
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More info at: http://kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/3D_lecture.html
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Free. No ticket or registration is required for this free program.

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Thu, Aug 27, FREE, atop SFV:
8 pm “SUNSET CONCERT” series, the FREE Thursday evening Summer concert series, concludes its 2015 run tonight at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda Bl, Los Angeles 90049; www.skirball.org; 310-440-4500.
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Tonight is NOVALIMA, “Afro-Peruvian soul and dub with electronic elements.” So why is it listed here? Well, because it’s the season finale, and mostly so we can tell you about something else at the Skirball that’s an AMERICANA MUSIC SERIES.
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Word to the wise: the Thursday scene at the Skirball has gone all “world mus-icky.” Want a MUCH BETTER BET? Catch the WEEKEND AMERICANA SERIES, with performances at Noon and 2 pm by one group Saturday, another group Sunday. THAT series – this summer’s WEEKEND Skirball “Family Amphitheater Performances” takes family visitors on “a ramblin’ musical road trip, inspired by Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution.” Series runs Saturdays and Sundays, Jun 27–Sep 6, with performances at noon and 2 pm.
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Weekend performances are included with Museum admission. On weekends, there’s free on-site parking; street parking strictly prohibited.

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Thu, Aug 27, FREE, in Culver City:
9 pm AMERICANA / ALT or TRAD COUNTRY / HONKY TONK MUSIC is a distinct possibility tonight at the Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Bld, Culver City 90230.
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No cover. Venue is 21+, the size of a postage stamp, and barstool seating is competitive. Still it’s always a fun place.

Fri-Sun, Aug 28-30,
CONFERENCE,
in L.A.:
Three-day “TV & ENTERTAINMENT SUMMIT” produced by the Los Angeles Urban League Young Professionals happens at 7000 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048.
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Most activities are at the Writers Guild of America, 7000 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90048.
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Here is some info on a few of the panels (which seem more like workshoips). Each one, regardless of what it is, seems to cost $11.54. Have a look...
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TV Writer's Workshop is $11.54. Sat, Aug 29, 10-11:15 am. This one is a crash course in the fundamentals of writing for television. This workshop will help strengthen the skills of writers at all levels. The course will review story, techniques, structure and format according to industry standards.
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Pitching Workshop is $11.54. Sat, Aug 29, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. Host: Austyn Biggers (BET networks). In this workshop, develop and strengthen your pitch, polish your presentation skills, and learn how to clearly market your film, TV or new media project.
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New Media Panel is $11.54. Sat, Aug 29, 1:10 pm-3:15 pm. This workshop focuses on digital media and online content. Learn about the power of digital media and business strategies for success.
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Diversity Panel is $11.54; Casting and Actor's Workshop is $11.54. Sun, Aug 30, 11 am-12:15 pm. Participants will learn from veteran casting directors and actors on techniques to improve their acting abilities and prepare for auditions. The intention of this panel is to help boost actors overall performances.
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There is an Agent Panel, a Producer Panel, a Director's Workshop, and beyond the conference, they offer an Annual Professional Mentorship Program.
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Full info and registration at: http://laulyp.com

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Fri, Aug 28, in Burbank:
1-3 pm THE WOODYJAMES BIG BAND plays their weekly lunch show at Cody's Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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This sensational 15 piece aggregation, which often features the gorgeous pipes of acclaimed jazz vocalist LYNN KELLER, kicks off your weekend with a selection of swinging classics.
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A one-menu-item cover applies. Venue has a full menu & full bar.

Fri, Aug 28, FREE, in downtown L.A.:
6 pm “DANCE DOWNTOWN” summer series on the Music Center Plaza closes-out its 2015 season with SAMBA at the L.A. Music Center, 135 N Grand Av, L.A. (downtown) 90012; 213-972-7211; www.musiccenter.org.
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The “epic summer of dance” ends with the heat of Samba, so you can “Move those hips and shake it up on the Plaza to the beat of the drumline.”

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Fri, Aug 28, in L.A.:
7 pm "LAWIM ARTISTS" play the "NETTE RADIO 4th FRIDAYS SONGWRITERS SERIES" at Muse on 8th, 759 S La Brea, L.A.; www.museon8th.com
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Los Angeles Women in Music (LAWIM) is L.A. / Hollywood's top organization for women in the music industry. Their members include platinum-selling artists and Grammy winners in front of and behind the mics.
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Nette Radio is the long-running internet radio show hosted by Annette Conlon, who also performs tonight.
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More at: wwwlawim.com
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There’s a LAWIM Meet & Greet prior to the show, and we recommend attending that. Music starts at 7 pm. Cover is a two-purchase mininum, food or drink; coffeehouse fare.

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Fri, Aug 28, in OC (Huntington Beach):
7 pm WIMBERLEY BLUEGRASS BAND plays the monthly "GOSPEL NIGHT" at Island Bazaar, 16582 Gothard St, Suite R, Huntington Beach; 714-843-9350.
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This event is half jam, half concert.
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Bring your ukulele, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, etc., and play along for the gospel jam. Then, after the break, sit back and enjoy a set by the Wimberley Bluegrass Band.
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$5 cover at the door to "help keep the music alive" at the venue, which is also a music store.

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Fri, Aug 28, in Burbank:
7 pm LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD OR ALT COUNTRY in a full lineup on two stages in separate rooms at Cody's Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank 91506.
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All ages. A one-menu-item cover applies. Venue has a full menu & full bar. Park free across the street at Pickwick Bowl (affiliated owners).

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Fri, Aug 28, in Hollywood:
7 pm SCOTCH JANE’s EP Release Show headlines the FULL LINEUP, mostly acoustic, at the Hotel Café, 1623 N Cahuenga Bl, Hollywood 90028; www.hotelcafe.com; 323-461-2040.
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Here’s as much of the night’s lineup as the venue published:
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♪ John Nolan – 7 pm
♪ unpublished – 8 pm
♪ Scotch Jane EP Release Show – 9 pm
♪ Oak and Gorski – 10 pm
♪ Alexander Morgan – 11 pm
♪ Calliope Musicals – midnight
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Tickets purchased on the venue’s web ticket page are counted for the mentioned artist only; other acts receive no compensation from that ticket sale, so their site says, “Please purchase accordingly.” (Shows that are being presold are not listed on their site’s ticket page.) One ticket is often good for the entire night, but it does not guarantee admission to another sold-out show the same evening. They do not accept credit cards at the door; they do have an ATM. Seating at The Hotel Café is very limited; tables are first come first serve and generally available only for those who order food, unless reserved by a band.
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Venue is 21+ for all patrons.
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Advance tix, more info, at:
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www.hotelcafe.com

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Fri, Aug 28, in Tehachapi:
7 pm FLAGSHIP ROMANCE plays the Fiddlers Crossing concert series Fall season opener, this time at its hom,e venue, Fiddlers Crossing, 206 East F St (at Robinson), downtown Tehachapi.
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An exciting young duo, Flagship Romance is from Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The couple, Jordyn and Shawn Fisher, call their music, “harmonic alternative folk” but it is much more. They are part of a resurgence in popular music of well-crafted songs and solid, soaring harmonies. They display a passion and intensity in their performance reminiscent of a young Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.
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Here’s what their bio says: “When she was 3 years old, Jordyn was obsessed with Whitney Houston. She danced and sang to all of her songs and knew every nuance. As she grew up, she emulated Whitney's voice, along with other divas like Mariah Carey & Celine Dion. ‘That's how I taught myself how to sing in my bedroom,’ she says, ‘with a hairbrush for a microphone and a sold-out arena in my head.’
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“In 8th grade, a friend’s father heard her singing and gave her recording studio time for a gift. ‘When I walked into the recording studio, I knew this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,’ she says.
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“After high school, she immersed herself in music, working in a recording studio, co-writing and singing harmony for other artists. She joined a heavy rock band called Veronica's Veil and the band released two CD’s. In 2009, her Dad suggested her voice would be better suited to jazz/pop music. She self-released a CD and was invited to play the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.
A London-based record label discovered the album and flew her over the Atlantic for a UK radio-tour. She had the opportunity to sing her rendition of Beatles' ‘If I Fell,’ live. ‘That was one of the scariest things I've ever done, but they were so gracious and truly enjoyed my version,’ she says.
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“For Shawn, growing up included going with his Dad to see classic rock bands such as Aerosmith, Moody Blues, & Motley Crüe. His Mom liked country artists Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, & Alan Jackson. “This instilled an appreciation for showmanship & storytelling”,he says.
As a teenager, he taught himself guitar and songwriting. ‘I quickly learned how many bad songs you have to write before a good one comes around. To me, writing a great song is 10% muscle & 90% magic.’ His parents funded his first six-song record when he was 16. After that studio experience, he was hooked.
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“In 2008, he and his band signed with EMI Music Publishing. It was not a good experience. Their CD was never released. ‘We felt like we were engaged in a tug of war battle when it came to our artistic integrity,’ says Shawn.
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“When they met, both Jordyn and Shawn were disenchanted with the music industry. They’d also both just gotten out of bad relationships. “We were individually at very trying times in our lives”, says Jordyn.
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“A mutual friend invited Shawn to come see Jordyn sing at a gig in Jacksonville, FL. ‘Jordyn was onstage in a beautiful blue sparkling dress, singing Patsy Cline's version of ‘Crazy,’ says Shawn. ‘My heart was like The Grinch's, but when I saw her, it grew 3 sizes.’
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“They connected on Facebook after Jordyn learned that Shawn had come to see her perform. ‘I had seen Shawn's YouTube videos, and knew what an incredible voice he had .We decided to go out to dinner at a nice Thai restaurant. He thought it was a date, but I didn't realize it was a date until he picked up the whole bill at the end of the meal,’ says Jordyn. Shawn says, ‘It's the best investment my mom ever made in my career.’
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“They were inseparable from that night on. Shawn started writing some original ‘jazzy’ songs with Jordyn for her solo career. They booked a show at The Florida Theatre, and Shawn played guitar & sang harmonies with her. ‘After the show, the feedback from the audience was all about our chemistry and harmonies,’ says Jordyn. They realized they had something very special together. Flagship Romance’s tour was in 2013 and they have never looked back.”
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There’s more at: www.flagshipromance.com
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Tix, $20. Doors at 6:30, show at 7. Tickets at the door, or advance online at www.FiddlersCrossing.com, or by phone at 661-823-9994.
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The coming season at Fiddlers Crossing will bring Berkeley Hart, Phil Salazar, Sarah McQuaid, Claudia Russell, Men of Worth, and Molly’s Revenge for their “Winterdance” show.

Fri, Aug 28, LIVE WEBCAST from Paso Robles:
(Time tba) “SONGWRITERS AT PLAY” showcase series brings JILL KNIGHT, CRIMSON CALAMITY, RUSTY LINDSEY, and performing host STEVE KEY, from D'Anbino Cellars, 710 Pine St, Paso Robles. Reservations strongly recommended: 805-227-6800. $12 cover. All ages, if you’re there.
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The show streams FREE and live on the web, at:
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http://centralcoastlive.com/watch-our-live-streams-concerts-here/
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This is quite a webcast, with multiple cameras and truly superior sound. They even have provisions for you to watch it through your big flatscreen tv! Their site explains all that. But it is a little confusing because there’s no “click here to watch” button. Just be online and the show starts when it starts.
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More on this prolific multi-venue Central Coast concert series and upcoming live (and some archived) webcasts, at:
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www.songwritersatplay.com

Fri, Aug 28, in Santa Barbara:
7:30 pm PETER FELDMANN & BLAINE SPROUSE play a house concert in Santa Barbara. Reservations get directions by email to: burdfilm@gmail.com
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Bluegrass and old time maestro and Topanga Banjo Fiddle “Music Legend Award” honoree PETER FELDMANN, and master fiddler BLAINE SPROUSE, team-up to present a house concert, exploring ballads and blues, banjo songs and fiddle breakdowns, the foundation of Bill Monroe's bluegrass music. Peter calls it “a rare opportunity” to see these two fine musicians in action as a duo. Seating is limited, so act promptly to secure a seat.
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$15 donation at the door.

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Fri, Aug 28, in Altadena:
8 pm JULIE CROCKETT & THE EVANGENITALS play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena 91001; reservations 626-798-6236 (10 am-10 pm); venue phone 626-398-7917; info www.coffeegallery.com
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Boasting one of the most eclectic resumes in the indie music world, The Evangenitals have built a fiercely loyal following through thousands of shows at clubs, coffee houses and festivals in the US and UK (including Scotland’s prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Their shows are notable for music that can be bawdy and rollicking in one moment, and, in the next, sufficiently mysterious and haunting to make the rowdiest of beer brawlers pause, turn toward the stage and listen.
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An alt-country/Americana love revolution made flesh for your listening pleasure, founded by playwright/director Julie Crockett and opera, jazz & gospel singer Lisa Dee, The Evangenitals are on a quixotic crusade in the key of life hell-bent on breaking hearts open, they are a genre-bending, ever-creating force of nature. Fiddler Andrea Baker and Joey Maramba round out a powerhouse quartet of unbelievable talent for this performance.
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Frequently performing with such legendary musicians as JIM KWESKIN of Jug Band fame, the Evangenitals are known for their genre-bending repertoire which spans folk, Americana, bluegrass, klezmer, jazz, gospel, pop, rock, R&B -- depending upon their mood, and what the audience is asking for. Their interactive, comedic, and deeply soulful performance convert lifelong fans at every performance.
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Their latest release, “Moby Dick: or, The Album,” (Fluff & Gravy Records) is a conceptual swirl of immaculately crafted songs, each interpreting an aspect of Melville’s masterpiece with an approach that tacks between intricate arrangement and the deceptively simple country-inflected tunes for which the band is best known. At times the songs are lushly poetic, at others, coarsely powerful. They are as infectious as they are ambitious, filled with humor, insight, mystery and wonder.
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Ranging from truck-stop lullabies to Klezmer-punk-jazz, ballads & barn-burners to hillbilly stomp, citing influences from the new-wave intelligentsia of the Talking Heads to the archetypal fire of Johnny Cash, all welded together with the mutant masterminds of Ween: The jukebox at the Mad Hatters tea party is the Evangenitals.
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There’s more at: www.evangenitals.com
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Fri, Aug 28, in San Pedro:
8 pm MOLLY'S REVENGE with guest performer CHRISTA BURCH play the the Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro 90731; www.grandvision.org; 310-833-4813.
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The globetrotting Celtic trio returns with lively jigs & reels featuring CHRISTA BURCH.
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MOLLY'S REVENGE performs traditional Celtic music played with a hard, driving edge on bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, mandola, bodhran, & guitar. They'll leave your heart pounding, your feet tapping, and your hands clapping for more.
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Born out of the timeless tradition of Celtic music sessions, Molly's Revenge is a band with a genuine affection for the music they play; their enthusiasm for the music carries over in all their live and recorded performances. The classic combination of solo instruments such as the Highland bagpipes, whistles, fiddle, and mandolin against a backdrop of guitar accompaniment guarantees an enjoyable and memorable listening experience.
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Equally at home in front of audiences several thousand strong or in small intimate venues, Molly's Revenge has performed at many of the top folk festivals in the USA and countless private concerts. Internationally, they have performed at prestigious events in Australia and China.
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The band's skilled musicianship and boundless enthusiasm for its music guarantees enjoyable entertainment for people of all ages. Their arrangements of traditional Celtic jigs and reels brings these dance tunes up to date with a driving, hard-edged accent in a way that will leave your feet tapping, your hands clapping, and your voices shouting for more.
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"Revered in California as one of its most energetic, exciting and innovative bands." --Shay Black, of the legendary Black family. "They bring to the music a vital and joyous creativity that excites even the hardest of hearts." --John Doyle, founding member of Solas. "The instruments are traditional... but the wild passion they exhibit is thoroughly modern." --Metro Santa Cruz (CA). "There is an engaging freshness and yet an impressive maturity in their playing." – Mick Moloney, National Heritage Award recipient.
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Plenty more at: www.mollysrevenge.com
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Doors at 7:30 pm for the best seats.
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Tix & info: www.grandvision.org

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Fri, Aug 28, FREE, in Pasadena:
8 pm KARLA BONOFF, plus REBECCA TROON, play one of the best offerings in the weekly "AMERICANA MUSIC SERIES" at the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Memorial Park, 85 E Holly St, Pasadena 91103; 626-683-3230.
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Karla Bonoff is one of the ’70s finest singer-songwriters. Her legacy as a writer and perseverance as a performer are spoken best in a Billboard Magazine review of Karla’s “All My Life” recording: “Long before Alanis and Jewel, there was a breed of singer-songwriters whose earthly anthems of soul-searching, heartache and joy touched souls in a way few can muster today.”
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For us, evoking those images of Karla with “joy touched souls,” we’ll always remember the last time we saw the late, great KENNY EDWARDS perform. It was on this very stage, with Karla Bonoff, a few short days before we lost him from this world.
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There’s plenty to learn about Karla’s storied career at: www.karlabonoff.com
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Activities begin at 6:30...
• KidZone
• REBECCA TROON does the "Sidestage Performance" at 7 pm. Arrive early for her; you’ll be glad you did.
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Ride the Metro Gold Line light rail to Memorial Park Station and you’re right there.
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Bring lawn chairs or a blanket, and a picnic (no alcohol allowed in the park, and that’s enforced with expensive citations) or grab a bite to eat from the “Taste of Levitt Pavilion Pasadena” (rotating food trucks). Tonight, it’s Slammin’ Sliders and YogurtLand. Arrive early to enjoy the pre-show performance on the little “Grassy Hill Side Stage,” and check out the local “Community Partners” while the little ones enjoy the KidZone.
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Free, except what you buy to eat. More at: www.levittpasadena.org

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Fri, Aug 28, FREE, in L.A.:
8 pm L.A. OPERA plays the free summer concert series at Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park, 2230 W 6th St, Los Angeles 90057; 213-384-5701.
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This performance by the L.A. OPERA is presented by “Hispanics for the L.A. Opera.” The principal purpose of Hispanics for Los Angeles Opera is to promote the appreciation of, and attendance at, opera performances of Los Angeles Opera by the Hispanic community of Los Angeles through support of education and community programs of Los Angeles Opera and through its own cultural and social activities.
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Plenty of info on the opera, their accomplishments, and performance schedules, are at: www.laopera.org
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Pre-concert activities begin at 6:30 pm with the KidZone and more. Main stage concert begins at 8 pm. “Taste of Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles” brings food vendors Peaches Smokehouse and Coolhaus. Or bring your own picnic dinner. (But no alcohol in the park.)
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Ride the Metro Purple Line subway to MacArthur Park Station then walk around the small lake and you’re right there.
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Bring lawn chairs or a blanket, and a picnic (no alcohol allowed in the park, and that’s enforced with expensive citations) or grab a bite to eat from the “Taste of Levitt Pavilion Pasadena” (rotating food trucks). Tonight, it’s Tomski Sausage and Mama’s Tamales. Arrive early to enjoy a pre-show performances on the little “Grassy Hill Side Stage,” and check out the local “Community Partners” while the little ones enjoy the KidZone.
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Fri, Aug 28, in SFV (Chatsworth):
8 pm ROB STALEY plays the second of his two-night stand headlining the nightly LIVE AMERICANA / TRAD & ALT COUNTRY at the Cowboy Palace, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth; 818-341-0166.
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Every night, they present LIVE AMERICANA / ALT OR TRAD COUNTRY / HONKY TONK music for listening and dancing – unless they’re closed when Hollywood rents the place to shoot a movie or tv show, and the place has been in hundreds of film and tv shoots over the years.
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This is L.A.’s last real honky-tonk, no cover, full bar, and friendly people who, howdy pardner, all like to dance. Go early for the free dance lessons. There’s live music EVERY night, seven nights a week; sometimes acoustic, sometimes heavy on the pedal steel or the twang, but never that annoying fahke ackscent pop-“countree” Nashvulle scene.

Fri, Aug 28,
in SFV (NoHo):
8-10 pm MARIELA ARREDONDO and NOVA MARIÉÉ play Kulak's Woodshed, 5230-1/2 Laurel Canyon Bl, North Hollywood; 818-766-9913; info, www.kulakswoodshed.com. There is often a live webcast at Concert Window; check their site, at https://www.concertwindow.com/4937-kulak-s-woodshed-in-north-hollywood-ca-presents-a-v)
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More at: www.novamariee.com
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Fri, Aug 28, ON THE WEB, and in SGV (Monrovia):
8 pm Weekly “KATTYWOMPUS CONCERT / JAM” is f note to folkies, trad acoustic instrument fans, at Dollmakers Kattywompus, 412 S Myrtle Av, Monrovia 91016; 626-357-1091.
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This 8 pm music gathering now has a LIVE WEBCAST. It’s right in the middle of things at “MONROVIA FAMILY FESTIVAL,” a weekly street fair that starts at 6 pm with music on the corners, on a stage, and in several venues (some that serve food, some with full bars).
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Watch the webcast or get more info at: www.SoKattywompus.com

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(word of this show just received from Scotland, Sat. morning, Aug 22)
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Mon, Oct 12, in Altadena:
8 pm Scotland’s TANNAHILL WEAVERS play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake, Altadena. Reservations by phone only (10 am-10 pm, 7 days) at 626-798-6236.
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Bob Stane hasn’t yet announced this show. Jump on it before it sells-out.
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The TANNAHILL WEAVERS are one of Scotland's premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, original ballads and lullabies, and humorous tales of life in Scotland. Their music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich and varied musical heritage of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received worldwide accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better...yet continue to do just that.
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Born of a session in Paisley, Scotland and named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate ROBERT TANNAHILL, the group has made an international name for its special brand of Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. Over the years “The Tannies” have been trailblazers for Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes – their versatile piper LORNE MacDOUGALL arranged and performed for for the 2012 Disney Pixar movie "Brave" under the leadership of PATRICK DOYLE, and for Dreamworks’ “How to Train Your Dragon 2." They are firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage; from reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs,the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits.
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"An especially eloquent mixture of the old and the new." -New York Times.
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“These guys are a bunch of heroes every time they go on tour in the states.” - Garrison Keillor,A Prairie Home Companion.
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“…their great humour and superb musicianship make them one of the finest bands on the circuit.” - Rogue Folk Review.
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“The music may be pure old time Celtic,but the drive and enthusiasm are akin to straight ahead rock and roll.” -Winnipeg Free Press.
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More at: www.tannahillweavers.com

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2nd HOT ALERT...

HOT TICKET ALERT... FREE tix (second batch) still available as of Tuesday night...

Wed, Aug 26, in L.A.:
8 pm “FULL THROTTLE COMEDY” has 50 TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY FREE to see a big lineup of comics at the famous Improv, 7969 Melrose Av, L.A. 90069.
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This month, their show features STEVE BYRNE from TBS's “Sullivan and Son,” plus numerous comedy specials. If you jump right on this (Saturday morning, Aug 22) you can invite all your friends and co workers to this show that will be packed with talented comedians. This show brings surprises: last month Jeff Ross took the stage unannounced.
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There are complimentary 50 tickets to give away. Go to the site below with your name, cell phone number, and number of guests. Register at:
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www.comedymadnessshow.com
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Invitations come from Steve Byrne, who works or has worked with Comedy Central, Sullivan and Son, the Tonight Show, and more. Past guest comics at this series include Jay Leno, David Spade, Jud Apatow, Dane Cook, Chris D'elia, Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, and Anthony Jeselnik.

There are separate sections within.
a) ONGOING EVENTS, like plays in production, are listed in the first section, followed by...
b) FESTIVALS AHEAD, listed in their own section; and then, our ever-growing catalog of...
c) UPCOMING CONCERTS and arts events, single-event screenings, etc.

√ A “SHOW-of-the-WEEK” pick...
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Thursdays-Sundays, through Sep 13, in SGV (Sierra Madre):
(Time varies; usually 8 pm, some 2:30 pm matinees)
“ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE” is a big time music-filled show at the charming little Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W Sierra Madre Bl, Sierra Madre; 626-355-4318; www.sierramadreplayhouse.com
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This is the fastest ticket-seller in the Playhouse’s history. To accommodate the extraordinary demand, additional matinee performances have been added. Don’t dawdle getting tickets to this one. (The Guide” News Feature that announced the production’s opening night is re-run here.)
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It’s a real, live stage MUSICAL, a theatrical production focusing on the vocal magic of PATSY CLINE, you’ll experience how she evoked the heartbreak and longing that have made her songs country and pop classics. Written by Ted Swindley, directed by Robert Marra, with musical director Sean Paxton, it’s a Sierra Madre Playhouse production starring CORI CABLE KIDDER and NIKKI D’AMICO.
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“Always….Patsy Cline” depicts the legendary singer backed by a live band performing twenty-seven of her greatest hits in this jukebox musical. Patsy Cline (1932-1963) was one of the most popular and influential vocalists of the 20th Century.
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Although most associated with country music, she was the first female crossover artist, also singing traditional pop, torch songs, rockabilly, honky-tonk, country swing, and gospel. The first female solo artist admitted to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Patsy was also included among “The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll” by VH1, “The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time” by Rolling Stone, and “The 40 Greatest Women of Country Music” by CMT.
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She first appeared on radio in Winchester, VA in 1947. In 1954, country star Jimmy Dean brought her aboard as a regular on the radio show “Town and Country Jamboree” in Arlington, VA. In 1955, she began appearing on television, on the TV version of “Grand Ole Opry” and on “Ozark Jubilee.”
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But it was her sensational success on “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts” in 1957 that truly launched her as a national figure. Godfrey’s show, a precursor of competitions like “Star Search” and “American Idol,” also launched Ann-Margret and Pat Boone, among others.
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“Always…Patsy Cline” is based on a real incident that occurred in 1961. Super-fan Louise Seger befriends Cline before a concert in Houston. After the show, Louise takes her home, cooks her breakfast and appears with her on a local radio broadcast. The two maintain a correspondence, writing each other letters until Cline’s untimely death in a Tennessee plane crash in 1963. The star closed each of her letters to Seger, “Always…Patsy Cline.”
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CORI CABLE KIDDER portrays PATSY CLINE. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, she toured with IN THE MOOD and sang at Tokyo Disney for a year. Coming to L.A., she appeared in+ “The Producers” and with SWING DAMES, performing the music of the Andrews Sisters.
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NIKKI D’AMICO plays Louise. Her extensive musical theater credits include National Tours of “Evita,” “Cats,” “A Chorus Line,” “The Fantasticks,” “Chaplin,” “West Side Story,” and more. Most recently, she appeared with Pacific Resident Theatre in its Ovation-nominated production of “A View from the Bridge.”
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ROBERT MARRA directs. In addition to numerous New York credits, his local shows include “The World Goes Round,” “Once on this Island,” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Into the Woods,” “Chess in Concert,” “The Devil and Daisy Jane,” “A Chorus Line,” and many more. He is also a choreographer.
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TED SWINDLEY is the playwright. He was the Founding Artistic Director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. He also wrote “Stories My Grandmother Told Me.” Fans of Patsy Cline’s music will be in musical heaven as they’ll hear, performed live, twenty-seven of her greatest hits, including “Walkin’ After Midnight” (the Godfrey show hit), “Sweet Dreams” (a signature tune for Cline, although originally a hit ten years earlier by Faron Young), “Crazy” (written for her by WILLIE NELSON), “I Fall to Pieces,” “She’s Got You,” “Your Cheating Heart,” and many more.
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“Always…Patsy Cline” debuted in 1988. It is one of only two stage productions about the singer licensed and authorized by The Estate of Patsy Cline. In addition to affording a revue of great songs, “Always…Patsy Cline” is a heartwarming story of an enduring friendship.
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“Always… Patsy Cline” runs July 31-Sep 13, 2015, on this schedule: Fri’s & Sat’s at 8 pm, Sun’s at 2:30 pm. Additional matinees have been added at 2:30 pm on Thu, Aug 27; Sat, Aug 29; Sat, Sep 5; Sat, Sep 12, and Sun, Sep 13.
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Tix: $30 gen’l. Seniors (age 65+) $27. Students (ages 13-21) $20. Children age 12 and under, $17. Call for tix. Ample free parking behind theatre.

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...through Nov 13, in L.A.:
"CORAZÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD: A STORY OF MARIACHI IN LOS ANGELES," runs May 15-Nov 13, 2015, at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 N Main St, Los Angeles 90012; 888 488-8083; http://lapca.org
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Mariachi music — and musicians — have become symbols of Mexican and Mexican American identity. From rancheras sung at weekend parties to the recent "Dolls of the World Barbie" dressed in a mariachi traje, this musical form is one of the most recognized icons of Mexican and Mexican American culture. "Corazón de la Comunidad: A Story of Mariachi in Los Angeles" explores the changing identity and history of the genre in L.A.
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Regular visitor hours are M, W & Th, noon–5 pm, and Fri through Sun, noon-6 pm; info@lapca.org
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Go on the right days and you'll a get live music performance along with the exhibition; keep reading.
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Go when there’s LIVE MUSIC &/or RELATED PROGRAMMING...
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• "Metalachi: Mariachi Fusion" is a special music program on Sat, Sep 26, at 7 pm.
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• "Platicas at LA Plaza: Is Mariachi Music all the Same?" happens Thu, Oct 8 , at 6:30 pm.

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√ A “SHOW-of-the-WEEK” pick...
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Ongoing, on a variable sched., through Sep 26, in Topanga:
“AS YOU LIKE IT” resets Shakespeare to the American Civil War, at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga, midway between Malibu and the San Fernando Valley.
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Note, “the rebel camp is alive with music — banjo, guitar, ukulele, mandolin and more.”
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In this production of “As You Like It, ” director ELLEN GEER moves the tale of two sets of brothers — one alienated by ambition, the other estranged by envy — to the divided South of the post-Civil War era, adding traditional American folk music and dance from the period. Rosalind is forced to flee camp when her uncle Frederick, usurper of his brother’s position as a general in the Union army, threatens to have her killed. Accompanied by her cousin Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a man for safety's sake. The disguise comes in handy when she tests the devotion of her noble admirer, Orlando, on the run from his hostile older brother. Meanwhile, the rebel camp is alive with music — banjo, guitar, ukulele, mandolin and more. With Rosalind's wit leading the way, the forces of true love, justice and song eventually triumph.
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This production runs June 7 through Sep 26, ALTERNATING WITH OTHER PRODUCTIONS. Production dates / times: Sunday, June 7 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, June 14 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, June 20 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, June 28 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, July 12 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, July 18 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, Aug 1 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, Aug 9 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, Aug 15 at 3:30 pm * • Saturday, Aug 22 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, Aug 29 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, Sep 6 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, Sep 13 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, Sep 19 at 3:30 pm • Sunday, Sep 20 at 3:30 pm • Saturday, Sep 26 at 3:30 p.m .
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A special Prologue (pre-show discussion) happens Saturday, Aug 15 at 2:30 pm. (included in ticket price).
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Tickets range from $10-$39.50; children 6 and under are free. Info, complete schedule of all performances this summer, and advance tix, at 310-455-3723 or www.theatricum.com

Fri-Sun, Aug 28-30, FIDDLE CAMP, in Tennessee:
“FLETCHER BRIGHT NASHCAMP FIDDLE CAMP” in Fairview, TN. BILL EVANS is the resident banjo player at this new camp and will lead slow jams and bluegrass harmony classes.

Fri-Sun, Sep 4-6,
FESTIVAL,
in Rhode Island:
Annual “RHYTHM & ROOTS FEST” in Ninigret State Park, RI. If you go, make it a day early to catch STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS on Sep 3 at the Towers.
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Full info at www.rhythmandroots.com

♪ REBECCA LOMNICKY; After becoming Junior Div. Champ in 2005, in 2009, she won the highest award in Scottish fiddling, the Glenfiddich International Scottish Fiddle Championship at Blair Castle, Scotland, as the only non-Scot and the youngest person ever.

♪ TEMPEST; plays a globally-renowned hybrid of high-energy Folk Rock fusing Irish rells, Scottish ballads, Norwegian influences and more, with 15 critically-acclaimed CDs and more than 2,000 gigs since 1988.
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ADVANCE TIX, by phone...
Due to a large number of orders, online ticket sales are now closed. Starting Monday, August 24, through Wednesday, September 2, you can still buy tickets at the discounted price by phone for pickup at Will Call on the day of the Games, at 925-829 5555 between 8 am & 5 pm only(!) Please do not call outside the hours stated. You can also buy tix in person from the same person you are calling, 4th Chieftain Keith Victor at Keith's Autobahn, 6398 Dougherty Road, Suite 23, Dublin, CA. If you are picking up in person, call beforehand between 8 am & 5 pm only (do not call outside those hours).
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Online shirt sales close Aug 28.
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Full details at: www.thescottishgames.com
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ALSO, IF YOU’RE GOING, check the “Ticket Alerts” (concert section) listing for the gala concert the night before, Sep 4: “VALLEY OF THE MOON FIDDLE EXTRAVAGANZA SCOTLAND — SWEDEN — IRELAND,” with a 150-piece orchestra(!) at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.

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Fri-Sun, Sep 11-13,
FESTIVAL,
in OC (Dana Point):
31st Annual "TOSHIBA TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL" at the Ocean Institute, 24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr, Dana Point 92629; 949-496-2274; www.ocean-institute.org
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This is a festival with lots of action. You can take ship tours and set sail for cannon battles at sea, catch musicians performing sea chanteys, nautical storytellers, Polynesian dancers, live sea creatures in the Ocean Institute, re-eanctors portraying pirates, saefarers from the age of sail, Civil War sailors and soldiers, cannoneers, and more.
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Friday is the “Sunset Parade Sail” The full Festival happens Sat & Sun, 10 am-5 pm, with ship tours ending at 3:30 pm, to prepare to go to sea for the “battles.”
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This is a wonderful time and place to explore the majesty and wonder of life at sea through the sights and sounds of working tall ships. Ashore, the interactive living-history encampments include blacksmiths, scrimshaw artists, knot tiers, and the infamous “Port Royal Privateers” entertain and amaze guests of all ages.
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Cannon Battle and Sunset Sail ticket sales are now open. REGISTER EARLY, because the ships fill quickly. Tix and complete info, at:
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www.tallshipsfestival.com

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Fri-Sun, Sep 11-13,
FESTIVAL,
in New Mexico:
“PICKAMANIA!” is a bluegrass festival in Silver City, New Mexico.

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Sat, Sep 12,
FESTIVAL,
in Long Beach:
Annual “LONG BEACH LOBSTER FESTIVAL” in Rainbow Lagoon Park, Long Beach.
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There’s music all day and evening, and the cuisine is very much centered on the lobsters flown-in from New England. The excellent BONNE MUSIQUE ZYDECO plays Creole-centered Cajun-Creole-Zydeco – featuring the squeezebox and rub-board – for listening and dancing, 4-5:30 pm. More on the band at www.BonneMusiqueZydeco.com ; Google the event for details and the full lineup.

Fri-Sun, Sep 18-20,
FESTIVAL,
in Riverside Co (Murrieta):
Annual "GET SHAMROCKED IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL" in Town Square Park, 24701 Jefferson Av, Murrieta.
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This is a big-deal Irish / Celtic music event.
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GET SHAMROCKED IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL, only founded in 2013, is a fresh new event is set to double in capacity again in 2015, with 12,000 Celtic music revelers expected over three days. They’ll hear sixteen bands gathered from across the planet. The venue is Town Square Park in Murrieta, California, for three days – Friday-through-Sunday, September 18-20.
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“Town Square Park is the perfect venue with free parking and a flat, grassed area with huge stage and natural amphitheater. Festival goers are welcomed to bring their own chairs, blankets and small umbrellas to enjoy the festivities. Get Shamrocked will have a vendor village with all kinds of merchandise and goods with food trucks to satisfy all appetites. Guinness and Jameson Irish whiskey are the headline sponsors and a full range of beverages will be readily available,” says the producer.
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Indeed, the music is set to run non-stop, and the 16 band lineup has four major headliners over the three days. Here’s a day-by-day sample.
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Friday at 9:15 pm, there’s FLATFOOT 56, Chicago-based outfit founded by siblings Tobin, Justin, and Kyle Bawinkel. And they’ll be picking-up the gauntlet thrown down by FLOGGING MOLLY and DROPKICK MURPHYS with their punk-laced “Oi!” rock.
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Saturday at 5 pm, GAELIC STORM hits the stage. They’re the Celtic band that helped bring the “steerage party” scene to life (and “Jack” and “Rose” closer together) in the blockbuster movie, “Titanic.” The band blends folk, world music, and traditional Irish sounds into chart-topping albums and electrifying live sets.
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At 8:15 pm Saturday, prepare for THE MAHONES. They’re the Irish band led by FINNY McCONNELL that’s been a major force in the Irish punk scene over the past 25 years. In the wake of their successful albums, including “The Black Irish,” the group tours the globe headlining major festivals. Another of the Saturday bands, THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY, are making the journey from Melbourne, Australia as a prequel to their US tour.
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Sunday at 5 pm, THE YOUNG DUBLINERS take over. Fans of The Pogues and Thin Lizzy love this rollicking outfit, whose sound, according to the Spokane Inlander, is “like a pint of honest rock music with a shot of Irish flair dropped in for extra kick.”
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Get Shamrocked is one of the fastest growing festivals in California and the prophetic words of YOUNG DUBLINERS’ lead singer, that “it could be the ‘Celtic Coachella’ of this genre,” might just be coming to fruition.
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WHO CAN GO, WHEN...
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Friday and Saturday are strictly 21+plus audience while Sunday is the “all ages” day where the entertainment is geared to all generations with kids 16 and under free of charge. Sunday will have a more traditional Irish feel and there will be lots of activities for the kids to enjoy whist experiencing some great music with the Sunday headliner the Young Dubliners finishing the festival off late Sunday afternoon.
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Festival producers tell us, “After two great festivals that have included the likes of THE TOSSERS, THE DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS, DEREK WARFIELD, & THE YOUNG WOLFE TONES, Get Shamrocked is set to deliver another Celtic experience that will continue to grow and attract festival goers from California and beyond.”
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Save money with online advance tix, at
www.GetShamrocked.com
3 Day Full Weekend Pass $35
Friday-only $10
Saturday-only $20 ($30 at the gate)
Sunday-only $15 (kids 16 & under free)
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Full info: www.getshamrocked.com

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Fri-Sun, Sep 18-20,
FESTIVAL,
in Ontario, Cal.:
Annual "ROUTE 66 CRUISIN’ REUNION" brings three days of food, live music, entertainment and more than 2,000 classic cars from throughout the US and around the world.
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Downtown Ontario’s historic block of Euclid Avenue is the center of things for immersion in vintage automobiles and motorcycles and a wide range of events, including the music stages.
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Info, 800-867-8366. The festival’s website was not yet completed as of Aug 8. But it may be when you check it:
https://route66cruisinreunion.com/

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A lil’ bit OUT-OF-TOWN...
Fri-Sun, Sep 18-20,
FESTIVAL,
near Bishop (East of the High Sierra):
Annual “MILLPOND MUSIC FESTIVAL” always brings fine music performances, this year with headliners TONY FURTADO, DAVID MYLES, RICHARD SMITH, NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS, INCENDIO, MARCH FOURTH!, DAN CONNOR, THE MILLPOND ALL-STAR JAM, plus the BANANA SLUGS doing a kids performance and multiple NEA-sponsored workshops, and plenty of other acts, all at Millpond Park (Inyo Co. Park) and Campground, NE of Bishop, Cal.
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Presented by the Inyo Council for the Arts, whose staff attends bunches of other festivals and concerts to choose the best acts, this is a very fun festival that somehow feels intimate in the vast expanse of the great outdoors, in a fine place with the right ambiance and exceptionally good sound, all operating with the spectacular backdrop of the High Sierra. Though not specifically billed as a “folk fest” or an “all-acoustic” affair, essentially it is both, with first-rate acts each day. In addition to the main stage outdoors and with large trees for shade at the top of the slope (which is a bit of a natural grass lawn amphitheater), there is a smaller workshop stage in a large tent. They have a permanent snack bar that cooks good food, including breakfast each morning. Tent camping is available along the lake (the old sawmill’s mill pond, hence the name) and RV camping is available is the developed campground where the showers are located. This one is the autumn counterpart to the annual spring “Live Oak Music Festival” (held a few hundred miles away).
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Playing a Saturday set at 6:30 pm is INCENDIO, that exceptionally noteworthy trio of fiery acoustic string wizards. They are perennially so popular they are booked back among a lot of “first-time here” acts. If you don’t know INCENDIO, you should check them out at: www.incendioband.com
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Here’s the schedule for the MAIN STAGE and the festival’s two other venues (one venue is newly added this year)...
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MAIN STAGE Schedule
Friday Night...
6:30 pm: Bodie 601
7:40 pm: Cafe Musique
9 pm: AJ Ghent Band
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Saturday Main Stage...
Noon: Mohavisoul
1:15 pm: Dave Gunning
2:35 pm: Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett
4 pm: March Fourth!
Dinner Break
6:30 pm: Incendio
8:30 pm: New Orleans Suspects
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Sunday Main Stage...
9:30 am: Banana Slugs (Kids Performance)
10:25 am: Dan Connor
11:40 am: UNLV Marimba/Steel Drum Ensembles
1 pm: Richard Smith
2:15 pm: Tony Furtado
3:50 pm: David Myles
5:40 pm: Millpond All-Star Jam
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WORKSHOP TENT Schedule
Saturday...
9-10 am: Open Mic
10:15-11:15 am: Cafe Musique
11:30 am-12:15 pm: tba
12:30-1:15 pm: tba
1:30-2:15 pm: tba
2:30-3:15 pm: MohaviSoul – Songwriting workshop
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Sunday Workshop Tent...
9-9:45 am: Open Mic
10-10:50 am: tba
11:05 am-Noon: Joe Craven
12:15-1 pm: tba
1:15-2:15 pm: tba
2:15-3 pm: tba
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NEW for 2015: NEA EDUCATION TENT Schedule
Saturday...
9-9:45 am: AJ Ghent – Slide Guitar
10-10:45 am: Banana Slugs – Kids workshop, ages 5-7
11-11:45 am: Banana Slugs – Kids workshop, ages 8-10
Noon-12:45 pm: Banana Slugs – Kids workshop, ages 11-13
1:30-2:30 pm: tba
3-4 pm: tba
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Sunday NEA Tent...
9:15-10:15 am: Jim Stubblefield (Incendio) – Exotic Guitar
10:45-11:45 am: Richard Smith – Fingerstyle Guitar
Noon-1 pm: Tony Furtado – Banjo
1:15-2:15 pm: tba
2:30-3:30 pm: Sage Romero – Native American dance
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All the info, including advance tix (discounted in advance) and campground reservations (absolutely necessary in advance for RVs) is available by phone at 760-873-8014, or online, at: www.inyo.org/music/millpond-festival

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Fri-Sun, Sep 18-20,
FESTIVAL,
in Coloma (Northern Cal):
9th annual "AMERICAN RIVER MUSIC FESTIVAL" announced its lineup and began offering discounted early bird tickets on May 1, and that offer closes SOON.
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The festival recently announced its line-up:
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Main Stage:
NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, DANGERMUFFIN, NORA JANE STRUTHERS & THE PARTY LINE, SHOOK TWINS, DAVID LUNING BAND, SONGS OF THE FALL, DAVID MYLES TRIO, SPARK AND WHISPER, DENNIS JOHNSON & THE MISSISSIPPI RAMBLERS.
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Other Stages ~ Campgrounds and Hot Spots:
DANGERMUFFIN, SHOOK TWINS, DAVID LUNING BAND, SONGS OF THE FALL, DAVID MYLES TRIO, SPARK AND WHISPER, DENNIS JOHNSON AND THE MISSISSIPPI RAMBLERS, A THOUSAND YEARS AT SEA, PROXIMA PARADA, ACHILLES WHEEL DUO, MCNEVIN & THE SPOKES, ISLAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, THE KELLER SISTERS, STRINGTOWN AMBASSADORS, THE LOVE CHOIR, MOON SHINER, THE PAINTED HORSES, LUMADAE, TAMRA GODEY.
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Friday Night Showcase hosted by Michael Gaither:
Ten more performances tba.
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Sponsors say, "The South Fork wants you to hear music on its banks! Limited Time left to get ‘Early Bird’ discounts at the festival website.”
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The festival was named "Best of" choice for fun things to do in the Sacramento Bee newspaper, and called, "Friendly, Unforgettable" in the Mountain Democrat. "...what a great vibe at the festival" wrote the Auburn Journal. "Music and Moving Water in Perfect Harmony" says Submerge Magazine.
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Full info and tix, www.americanrivermusic.org/festival.php

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Sat, Sep 19,
FESTIVAL,
in San Diego Co (Julian):
1-8 pm Annual “JULIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL” happens again this year at the Menghini Winery, near Julian, at 1150 Julian Orchards Rd, Julian; www.julianca.com/music-festival.html

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Sun, Sep 20,
FESTIVAL,
in San Pedro:
Annual “TRI ART FESTIVAL” at Ports O’ Call Village in San Pedro; http://triartsp.com
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We do not yet know what the other two of the three arts are that this festival celebrates, but one is certainly live music performance, so we’re on-board.
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Playing at 4:30 pm and celebrating the 20th anniversary as a globetrotting band, Grammy-noms LISA HALEY & THE ZYDEKATS are the only Americans ever to play the Folk Festival in Palau, among their many accomplishments. Check ’em out, in action, at:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHKUzjggg4 plus, Lisa’s “Chicken Fiddler” video has reached the new Nickelodeon TV show, “React to That!” at: www.nick.com/react-to-that

OUT-OF-TOWN...
Wed-Sat, Sep 23-26
FESTIVAL,
in NC:
Annual "OUTER BANKS BLUEGRASS ISLAND FESTIVAL" on Roanoake Island, North Carolina, has one of the most dazzling lineups of the year.
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Full info at: www.BluegrassIsland.com

Sat, Sep 26,
FESTIVAL,
in Riverside Co (Murrieta):
4-5:30 pm Annual “MURRIETA LOBSTER FESTIVAL” in Town Square Park, Jefferson Av & Kalmia St, downtown Murrieta.
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This one is new to us. We know that the excellent BONNE MUSIQUE ZYDECO plays Creole-centered Cajun-Creole-Zydeco – featuring the squeezebox and rub-board – for listening and dancing, 4-5:30 pm. More on the band at www.BonneMusiqueZydeco.com ; Google the event for details and the full lineup.

Sat, Sep 26,
FESTIVAL,
in Kelseyville:
Annual “KELSEYVILLE PEAR FESTIVAL” in a charming, small town up in Lake County, California, promises live music all day, including acoustic and classical guitar, plus antique machinery and of course, fresh-picked fruit and fruit confections. Namely, pears.
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DAVE STAMEY plays the “Kickoff Dinner” the night before (that’s Fri, Sep 25). Dave has won ’purt near every award there is in Western music. Learn about him at: www.davestamey.com
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Complete info: www.pearfestival.com

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Sun, Sep 27,
FESTIVAL,
at the OC Fairgrounds:
Annual “BIG SQUEEZE FESTIVAL,” Southern Cal’s accordion-lovers fest across all folk genres that center tunes on the squeezebox, from concertina to button- to piano- accordion, happens all day at the Orange County Fairgrounds (OC Fair & Events Center), 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa 92626.
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We know that this festival is VERY dancer-friendly, and we know the excellent BONNE MUSIQUE ZYDECO plays Creole-centered Cajun-Creole-Zydeco – featuring the squeezebox and rub-board – for listening and dancing, Noon-12:45 pm. More on the band at www.BonneMusiqueZydeco.com ; Google the event for details and the full lineup.

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Thu-Sun, Oct 1-4,
FESTIVAL,
in Colorado:
Annual “DURANGO COWBOY POETRY GATHERING” brings a big time annual fete of Western Music and Cowboy Poets and history-as-entertainment, and it all fills multiple venues in Durango, Colorado – that mountain town best known as the lower terminus of the world-famous narrow gauge steam railroad to high-up Silverton.
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There are trail rides, train rides, concerts, programs with book authors and historians, everything from cozy indoors to hands-on outdoors with reins in your hands, beholding the sites of a lot of history. French fur trappers were here. Butch Cassidy passed this way. So do William Jackson Palmer and his Denver & Rio Grand three-foot-gauge “Mainline through the Rockies.” It’s absolutely the right place to do this, and they take full advantage of what the area has to offer.
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This is “A celebration of the rich culture and heritage of the American cowboy ~ The Gathering is an exciting, fun-filled event with evening performances and Saturday daytime sessions. Poets and musicians from throughout the country grace our intimate stage at The Strater Theater, performing classic and contemporary poems and songs that will bring tears to your eyes and keep you in stitches.”
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The featured opening night concert is “AN EVENING WITH DAVE STAMEY, “ Oct 1. Dave has won ’purt near every award there is in Western music. Learn about him at: www.davestamey.com
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Tix for some events are selling-out already. Check it out at:
www.durangocowboypoetrygathering.org

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Thu-Sun, Oct 1-4,
FESTIVAL,
in North Carolina:
“DO DA JAM FESTIVAL” is a bluegrass fest in Cashiers, North Carolina.

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Thu-Sun, Oct 1-4,
FESTIVAL,
in South Carolina:
“MOONSHINERS REUNION AND MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL” happens without the revenuers in Campobello, South Carolina.

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Sat & Sun, Oct 3 & 4,
FREE FESTIVAL,
in City of Industry:
3-7 pm “TICKET TO THE TWENTIES” at the Homestead Museum, 15415 E Don Julian Rd, City of Industry 91745; 626-968-8492; www.homesteadmuseum.org
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This is FREE; it runs from 3 to 7 pm, both days. Dig out your glad rags — seriously, 1920s dress is encouraged, and you’ll have more fun – and plan to go both days, because the bands are different. Celebrate the Roaring Twenties as you enjoy music, dancing, silent films, crafts, historic house tours, games, demonstrations, and more. They do a fine job with this, in every aspect, and antique car clubs bring automobiles, tractors, and other machines from the ’20s and earlier.
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MUSICAL LINEUP...
(a rare chance to see any / all these groups perform without having to buy a ticket)
Saturday:
♪ DEAN MORA & HIS MODERN RHYTHMISTS
♪ IAN WHITCOMB AND HIS BUNGALOW BOYS
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Sunday:
♪ JANET KLEIN & HER PARLOR BOYS
♪ THE NIGHT BLOOMING JAZZMEN
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It’s all free, but bring spending money for food and shopping (there are always some really unique items and unique vendors you won’t find at other festivals). Prohibition is strictly enforced. Bring your own lawn chairs or blankets. No pets allowed – only certified service animals permitted.
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Please note: In the event of rain, the festival will be canceled.

Fri-Sun, Dec 10-12,
FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE,
in L.A.:
2nd annual "YOUBLOOM L.A. MUSIC FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE" with the 2015 conference portion of the event scheduled during the day Dec 12 at the Highland Park Ebell Club, and the music venues (all three days / nights) to be situated in the NELA area of Los Angeles including Highland Park, South Pasadena, and Pasadena. Speakers for the conference will be announced in the coming months.
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Dublin, Ireland, has seen two annual "Youbloom Festival & Conference" and L.A. gets its second in December (the first US event was in November here last year). The northeast Los Angeles event will bring "three full days of entertainment, industry enlightenment, and more."
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Last year, performances filled five venues in Highland Park and Pasadena, hosting more than 60 bands from 11 countries around the world, including those from L.A. and across the US, for "a rockin’ 3 days/nights of live music and learning."
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The inaugural 2014 conferences in L.A. and Ireland hosted top-selling artists and professional music industry suits. That would suggest this year will be very worth attending.
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Find all details as they become available at:
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www.youbloom.com/la-2015

Not Music, but Cool...
Sat, Aug 29, in City of Industry:
5:30-7:30 pm “A TASTE OF CALIFORNIA: CHILI, CHILES, & HOT SAUCE” at the Homestead Museum, 15415 E Don Julian Rd, City of Industry 91745; 626-968-8492; www.homesteadmuseum.org
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Enjoy a summer evening on the beautiful grounds of the Homestead Museum as you explore Southern California’s rich culinary history. Using chiles as his inspiration, chef and food historian ERNEST MILLER, in partnership with the Montebello Applied Technology Center, will create a uniquely Californian menu showcasing how chiles have been used from the days of the missions through today. Diners will visit five tasting stations where they will sample tamales, chiliburgers, shrimp cocktails, spicy tuna rolls, mocktails, and more
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The Homestead Museum provides a unique way to look at Southern California's history from the 1840s, when this land was still part of Mexico, through the 1920s, when Los Angeles came to be known as a major metropolitan city. This six-acre site features the Workman House, a Victorian-era country home constructed around an 1840s adobe; La Casa Nueva, a 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival mansion noted for its architectural crafts; and El Campo Santo one of the oldest private cemeteries in Southern California. Through all of its programs, the museum strives to create advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles. Info on programs, hours, etc, at 626-968-8492 or www.homesteadmuseum.org
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Space is limited for “A TASTE OF CALIFORNIA.” This program cannot accommodate vegetarian or gluten-free diets. Make a reservation at 626-968-8492 or online at www.homesteadmuseum.org
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Tix $40 adults, $35 seniors & students.
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NOTE: The museum hosts the delightful annual “TICKET TO THE TWENTIES FESTIVAL” this year on Sat & Sun, Oct 3 & 4, from 3 to 7 pm, both days; see the Guide’s write-up in the “Festivals” section of “Ticket Alerts.”

√ A “SHOW-of-the-WEEK” pick...
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Sat, Aug 29, in L.A.:
(Time tba) JOE BONAMASSA plays the Greek Theatre, in Griffith Park (L.A.)
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Joe Bonamassa will highlight the music of Albert King, B.B. King and Freddie King and their classics, in a celebration of blues heritage as part of the “Keeping The Blues Alive” tribute concert series.
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Celebrated blues rock master Joe Bonamassa is gearing up to deliver a musical tribute to the Three Kings of Blues: Albert, B.B., and Freddie. The “Three Kings Tour” will make a stop at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 25 at 7:30 PM. This is an action-packed, brand new live show during the GRAMMY®-nominated guitarist and singer-songwriter’s first ever U.S. amphitheater tour. The show will feature songs, amazing blues covers from the Three Kings, performed by Bonamassa unlike anything he has played before.
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Bonamassa will be backed by a stellar band of blues musicians including ANTON FIG on drums, MICHAEL RHODES on bass, REESE WYNANS on piano and Hammond organ, LEE THORNBURG on trumpet and horn arrangements, PAULIE CERRA on saxophone, and NICK LANE on trombone. A portion of the proceeds from this tour will go to the “Keeping the Blues Alive (KTBA) Foundation,” a non-profit that Bonamassa founded in 2011 and that he oversees to promote the heritage of the blues to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement efforts to fill the loss of music education in public schools.
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As Joe Bonamassa enters his 25th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkably versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassa's career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, and is an ever-evolving singer-songwriter who has released 16 solo albums in the last 14 years, all on his own label, J&R Adventures. In 2013, Bonamassa earned his first GRAMMY ® nomination for Best Blues Album, and with the release of 2014’s new studio record Different Shades Of Blue, he debuted at #8 on Billboard's Top 200 (a career high) and received his thirteenth #1 Billboard Blues Album (more than any other artist). On January 23 and 24, 2015, he fulfilled a childhood dream when he headlined two shows at New York City's legendary Radio City Music Hall.
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He also plays Aug 24 in Paso Robles, and Aug 25 at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

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Sat, Aug 29, in San Pedro:
8 pm STREET CORNER RENAISSANCE brings doo-wop classics with soaring harmonies to the Grand Annex in San Pedro.
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This exciting act has shared the stage with Stevie Wonder, Diana Reeves, and many other “name” stars.

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Sun, Aug 30, in Long Beach:
Noon-5 pm 1st Annual “LONG BEACH TIKI SOCIAL + TIKI SWAPMEET” includes appropriately-themed live music, hosted by Roxanne's Cocktail Lounge and the New Latin Grill, at Roxanne's Cocktail Lounge, 1115 E Wardlow Rd, Long Beach 90807
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First band starts at 2 pm. The promo says, “August 30th will bring together the best that Southern California has to offer in the Tiki world, Including Kelly Merrel from Trader Sam's, Local Tiki bands from all around Southern California, the best tiki vendors So-Cal has to offer, as well as local vendors.” An “After-Party” at Roxanne’s starts immediately at 5 pm. Mahalo.
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21+ event, Food will be served. Tix: “Lei Package” $16.82; regular tix, $6.27 are sold-out.

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√ A “SHOW-of-the-WEEK” pick...
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Sun, Aug 30, in Santa Barbara:
7 pm DIANA KRALL with special guest GREGORY PORTER play the Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara 93103; 805-962-7411.
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Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning jazz pianist and world renowned singer DIANA KRALL plays the Santa Barbara Bowl as part of her "Wallflower World Tour." Krall has made several national TV appearances to promote the tour, including performances on “LIVE! with Kelly and Michael” on Feb 2 and “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Feb 3.
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Produced by 16-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer David Foster, “Wallflower” finds Krall breaking new ground with her interpretations of some of the all-time best-selling pop songs. The album features popular classics from the late ’60s to present day that have inspired Krall since her early years, as well as an unreleased composition from Paul McCartney, titled "If I Take You Home Tonight".
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The "Wallflower World Tour" features Krall performing the Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreaming," the Eagles' "Desperado," and Bob Dylan's "Wallflower," which inspired the album's title track. Krall is accompanied onstage by folk luminary STUART DUNCAN on fiddle, ANTHONY WILSON on guitar, DENNIS CROUCH on bass, KARRIEM RIGGINS on drums, and PATRICK WARREN on keyboards.
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Diana Krall recently headlined “The Montreal International Jazz Festival” performing to over 100,000 loyal fans. Diana Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. To date, she has won five Grammy Awards, eight Juno Awards and has also earned nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. Her unique artistry transcends any single musical style and has made her one of the most recognizable artists of our time.
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There’s plenty more on Diana Krall at:
www.dianakrall.com/
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GREGORY PORTER, fellow GRAMMY winner and renowned jazz musiacian, joins Diana Krall on this tour. Porter has been called “The next great male jazz singer” by NPR Music. His last album brought this from the Wall Street Journal: “‘Liquid Spirit’ is shot through with gospel, blues and R&B influences… the title track pairs soulful horns with a deep, enveloping bassline that frames the California native’s supple tenor.” The New York Times wrote, “Gregory Porter [is] a powerful baritone who writes his own songs… from a more ’70s or early ’80s-oriented place in the African-American jazz tradition, strong and sometimes experimental yet serenely unacademic, and mightily good.”
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Tix ,$84.50 - $49.50, at https://sbbowl.com

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Sun, Aug 30. ONLINE CONCERT:
(Time tba) MARINA V, the delightful and globetrotting piano and acoustic guitar-based performing songwriter, does a live concert from her house in Southern California, before embarking on more tour dates in Europe & the US East Coast.
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Marina says, “Tune into our next online concert! Wherever you are in the world, you can attend, and as always, Nick & I will take song requests and answer your questions. Our tour with Árstíðir was amazing. Nick & I became good friends with this wonderful Icelandic band and loved touring with them (in spite of exausting days and typical road challenges. If you watched our TOUR DOCUMENTARY you now understand :)). Big thanks to every one of you who came to the shows!! And big thanks to our 2 Songs A Month Club members! Your support makes a huge difference every month.”
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Marina V is on the road now, in fact, opening for HOWARD JONES in Atlanta, GA, and Washington, DC, Aug 16 & 18. She says, “Both venues are beautiful theatres.”
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NOTE...
On August 22, MARINA V and Nick play CalTech's famed Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena.
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After this Aug 30 online concert, Nick & Marina are off to the Netherlands, playing the “Redhead Days Festival” Sep 4 & 5 in Breda. Marina then continues, sans Nick, to play 2 shows in Germany (Cologne) with her friends JOHNA, then one more solo show in Moscow.
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Always full of good ideas, Marina reports, “We drove 4,885 miles on this tour, and the contest winners of "Guess How Many Miles We Will Drive on this Tour" are: 1st place, Kirk G. from Venice, CA (he guessed 4,715 miles); 2nd place, Alex S. from Ontario, Canada (he guessed 4,656 miles); 3rd place, Joyce L. from Chicago, IL (she guessed 4,599 miles).” A fun bit of fan involvement that brough nice prizes.
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Watch tonight’s ONLINE CONCERT and discover this delightful artist at:
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https://www.concertwindow.com/9673-marina-v
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More at:
www.MarinaV.com

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Fri-Sun, Sep 4-27, in Pomona:
93rd annual “LOS ANGELES COUNTY FAIR” at Fairplex, 1101 W McKinley Av, Pomona 91768.
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This annual fete is a major Southern California family tradition with big time concert headliners and plenty more live music by non-famous musicians and bands throughout the enormous fairgrounds. Like the other major fairs – OC Ventura, San Diego County – this one includes all the concerts with gate admission.
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The Guide is preparing the same kind of complete concert coverage that we brought our readers for the just-ended Orange County Fair and Ventura County Fair.
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The event starts Labor Day weekend and runs through the month of September with something for everyone — themed attractions, a carnival midway, concerts, FairKids Field Trips, community events, wine tasting, horse racing, shopping, and that iconic Fair food.

Thu, Sep 10,
FREE FILM SCREENING,
In Pasadena:
7 pm “ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE’S DEVASTATING IMPACT ON GLOBAL WEATHER” is the program this month by “The Conscious Projector” organization at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N Raymond, Old Pasadena.
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The surge in recent years of extreme weather events linked to climate change is unprecedented in our lifetime. Canadian filmmaker MELANIE WOOD captures this alarming trend in her important new documentary, “WEATHER GONE WILD,” this month’s Conscientious Projector feature. The Dreamfilm Productions project for CBC-TV visits various cities around the world to highlight the many vital and winning efforts to adapt to the damage that climate change has already wrought and to prepare for destructive patterns yet to come. The program includes two short films on the work of Citizens Climate Lobby, a national grassroots advocacy organization, which has made significant inroads in legislation, activism and education to effect change and raise public awareness on climate realities.
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Robert Haw of the Pasadena-Foothills CCL chapter facilitates a community discussion following the films. Other local climate scientists and activists dedicated to making significant climate policy change will also be in attendance.
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Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons.

Fri, Sep 11, in VC (Newbury Park):
7:30 pm “FIRESIDE CONCERT SERIES” brings back their annual triple-header of TRACY NEWMAN & THE REINFORCEMENTS, the TOM CORBETT TRIO, and JOHN ZIPPERER & FRIENDS, to the Borchard Community Center, 190 Reino Rd (at Reino), Newbury Park.
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Here’s some info on these locally acclaimed acts...
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TOM CORBETT TRIO with BILL KNOPF and MIKE MULLINS. With years of instrumental accomplishments on mandolin and guitar, on stage, teaching, recording and studio work, Tom Corbett has accompanied numerous other artists including singer Jennifer Warnes. Tom played with Disneyland’s Bluegrass Band, with the Acousticats, and music luminaries that include John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), and Billy Ray Lathum (Kentucky Colonels). Tom has 3 CDs to his credit. Read about his records and more at: www.tomcorbett.net
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BILL KNOPF is an acknowledged grand master on the banjo. Bill has written over 20 instructional books, recorded six banjo albums including “Begin the Beguine.” He has toured with Donna Douglas who played Elly May Clampet on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and with Doc Severinsen’s Las Vegas Show. His great banjo licks could be heard on the “Dukes of Hazzard” TV series. Check out his career at: www.billknopf.com
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MIKE MULLINS is one of the West’s great guitar flatpickers. Mike is also an expert on the mandolin, and he has written instructional manuals and DVDs on both instruments. He is a member of a two well-known groups: THE CACHE VALLEY DRIFTERS and THE HAY DUDES. You can find plenty about him at: http://haydudes.com
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JOHN ZIPPERER & FRIENDS. Enter the room a stranger and instantly find yourself another one of John Zipperer’s friends. Known for his upbeat spin on Acoustic Americana Music, John and his band have entertained folks across the country with witty lyrics and touching tunes. After years of working as a musician and instructor at the world renowned Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA, playing with greats such as Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge), Dave Sutton (Lucinda Williams, Melissa Etheridge), Doan Perry (Jethro Tull), John began working as a Hollywood actor / stuntman. Eventually he returned his creative roots, working as a singer-songwriter, inspiring the title song of his first CD, “Full Circle.” There’s plenty more at: www.johnzipperer.com
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TRACY NEWMAN & THE REINFORCEMENTS: How do you get to be the youngest member ever of the New Christy Minstrels? We’ll need to back-up a ways. Tracy grew up in Los Angeles where she co-founded the famous “Groundlings” with her famous comedic sister Laraine Newman (original SNL cast). Even before that, Tracy started playing guitar at age 14, usually sitting on the diving board of her family’s pool, strumming for hours each day. In the early ’70s, she joined an improv class taught by Gary Austin, which soon became The Groundlings – with Tracy as a founding member. Besides performing, she taught and directed. It was at the Groundlings that Tracy met her future TV writing partner, Jonathan Stark. Their first staff job was on “Cheers,” followed by “Bob” (Bob Newhart,) “The Nanny,” “Ellen” and “The Drew Carey Show.” In 1997, Newman and Stark won an Emmy and Peabody Award for writing the groundbreaking “coming out” episode of “Ellen.” In 2001, they created the ABC comedy, "According to Jim," which ran for eight seasons. Tracy wrote songs through all of those Hollywood successes and stresses, many of which were featured in those TV shows. Now she’s performing her music full-time. She has two CDs out: “A Place in the Sun” and “I Just See You.” The Reinforcements are Gene Lippmann, John Cartwright, Doug Knoll and Paula Fong. Read all about Tracy and her gang at: www.tracynewman.com
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Hosted by Bob Kroll, sponsored by Conejo Recreation & Park District (Patti Ricketts, Recreation Coordinator).
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Tix, $10 at the door; adults only – no children admitted.

Sun, Sep 13, in Topanga:
10:30 am EVO BLUESTEIN plays his "Evo's Kid's Concert" for the "FAMILY FUNDAYS: THEATRICUM KIDS CONCERT” series at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga; 310-455-3723; www.theatricum.com
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There is also the ongoing "Peter Alsop's Children's Concert Series" here; if you have small fry, keep an eye on the venue's website.
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Tix, $10.

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Thu, Sep 17, in the Marina:
(Time tba) PADDY'S PIG, a fine trad Irish band, plays the first of three gigs for "HALFWAY TO ST. PATRICK'S DAY," this one at Brennan's in Marina Del Rey.
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Missy, Mike, Damon, Marty, & Jon — Paddy's Pig — always look and sound wonderful on stage. They tell us, "We've got new venues we're playing for the first time, new songs we've been writing, and new recordings on the way! Thanks so much for supporting and enjoying local Irish music!"
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More at: www.paddyspig.com

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Fri, Sep 18, in the near IE (Rialto):
4 pm PADDY'S PIG, a fine trad Irish band, plays one of three gigs for "HALFWAY TO ST. PATRICK'S DAY," this one at O'Leary's in Rialto.
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Missy, Mike, Damon, Marty, & Jon — Paddy's Pig — always look and sound wonderful on stage. They tell us
"We've got new venues we're playing for the first time, new songs we've been writing, and new recordings on the way! Thanks so much for supporting and enjoying local Irish music!"
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More at: www.paddyspig.com

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Sat, Sep 19, in Santa Barbara:
6 pm BEN HARPER & THE INNCOENT CRIMINALS play the Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara 93103; 805-962-7411.
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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals are reuniting for their first tour in seven years. Today, the band announced the first leg of their tour, which will make a stop at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday, September 19 at 6:00 PM. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 27 at 11 AM.

"The Innocent Criminals are a family," Harper said of the band's return to touring. "We've remained very close over the years and it seemed like we couldn't wait another minute. We've all come full circle in our own ways and it is time we pick up where we left off. It's creatively time for us to do this.”

Ben Harper is currently in the studio with The Innocent Criminals – percussionist Leon Mobley, bassist Juan Nelson, drummer Oliver Charles, keyboardist Jason Yates and guitarist Michael Ward. Founding members Mobley, Nelson and Charles have been integral parts of Harper’s sound for more than 20 years, first playing gigs at the tiny Mint nightclub in Los Angeles and supporting Harper’s 1994 debut, Welcome to the Cruel World. Yates and Ward became ICs a decade later and helped expand and refine the band’s sound.

While Harper has sold millions of albums worldwide, it’s on stage that he and The Innocent Criminals established themselves as one of the world’s most versatile and hard-working bands. Touring non-stop behind such albums as Fight For Your Mind, The Will to Live, Burn to Shine, Diamonds on the Inside and the GRAMMY® nominated Lifeline, they earned legions of fans with their explosive live performances.

The Innocent Criminals also backed Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama on the two-time GRAMMY® winning collaborative album There Will Be A Light. Ben also won a GRAMMY® last year for Best Blues album for his collaboration with Charlie Musselwhite, Get Up!

“The new music we’re writing honors the old IC sound, but is light ages ahead of where we were back then,” explained Harper. “I can’t wait for fans to hear it and give us that stamp of approval that only Innocent Criminal fans can give.”
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Sat, Sep 19, in Hollywood:
LILA DOWNS plays the Hollywood Pantages.

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Sat, Sep 19, in Redondo Beach:
(Time tba) PADDY'S PIG, a fine trad Irish band, plays the last of three gigs for "HALFWAY TO ST. PATRICK'S DAY," this one at Hennessey's Tavern in Redondo Beach.
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Missy, Mike, Damon, Marty, & Jon — Paddy's Pig — always look and sound wonderful on stage. They tell us, "We've got new venues we're playing for the first time, new songs we've been writing, and new recordings on the way! Thanks so much for supporting and enjoying local Irish music!"
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More at: www.paddyspig.com

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Sat, Sep 26, in Pasadena:
5 pm "MAGICAL MOONLIGHT SONATA GALA," a full program by the PASADENA SYMPHONY & POPS, at Ambassador Gardens, 380 W Green St, Pasadena 91123.
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Pasadena Symphony and POPS annual gala, “Moonlight Sonata,” features music under the stars, a deluxe dining experience with Claud & Co., an awards presentation, and exciting live and silent auction opportunities. All hosted by DAVID LOCKINGTON, Music Director, Pasadena Symphony and POPS.
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Maestro Lockington adds, “This year, the Pasadena Symphony and POPS is honoring Anne Akiko Meyers (violinist extraordinaire), Peter Hoffman (Sierra Auto Group) and Kin Hui (Singpoli Group) - three amazing and thrillingly supportive members of the PSA family. There is space in the event program book to offer your congratulations to these luminaries -email eventinfo@pasadenasymphony-pops.org to learn more.”
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Tix and more info: www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org

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√ A Guide "SHOW of the WEEK" Pick...
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Sat, Sep 26, in L.A.:
8 pm BRIGITTE, the Platinum-selling French indie sister-duo, known for their retro folk Parisian style, at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Dr, Los Angeles 90032; 323-343-6600; www.luckmanarts.org
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The Alliance Française de Pasadena presents this as a fundraiser for the Alliance and its educational programs, in collaboration with The Luckman fine arts complex.
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Pre-show reception at 7 pm, concert at 8 pm.
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All tix include the reception where you can enjoy a selection of wine and cheeses.
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$50 limited tix are preferred seating with the best front-center seats in the house.
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$25 to $35 general admission tix, despite being billed as "concert-only," also include the pre-show reception hosted by "French Morning" with refreshments and snacks at 7 pm.
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Tix at: www.luckmanarts.org

√ A “SHOW-of-the-WEEK” pick...
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Mon, Oct 12, in Altadena:
8 pm Scotland’s TANNAHILL WEAVERS play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake, Altadena. Reservations by phone only (10 am-10 pm, 7 days) at 626-798-6236.
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Bob Stane hasn’t yet announced this show. Jump on it before it sells-out.
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The TANNAHILL WEAVERS are one of Scotland's premier traditional bands. Their diverse repertoire spans the centuries with fire-driven instrumentals, topical songs, original ballads and lullabies, and humorous tales of life in Scotland. Their music demonstrates to old and young alike the rich and varied musical heritage of the Celtic people. These versatile musicians have received worldwide accolades consistently over the years for their exuberant performances and outstanding recording efforts that seemingly can't get better...yet continue to do just that.
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Born of a session in Paisley, Scotland and named for the town's historic weaving industry and local poet laureate ROBERT TANNAHILL, the group has made an international name for its special brand of Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. Over the years “The Tannies” have been trailblazers for Scottish music, and their tight harmonies and powerful, inventive arrangements have won them fans from beyond the folk and Celtic music scenes – their versatile piper LORNE MacDOUGALL arranged and performed for for the 2012 Disney Pixar movie "Brave" under the leadership of PATRICK DOYLE, and for Dreamworks’ “How to Train Your Dragon 2." They are firmly established as one of the premier groups on the concert stage; from reflective ballads to footstomping reels and jigs,the variety and range of the material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively Celtic spirits.
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"An especially eloquent mixture of the old and the new." -New York Times.
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“These guys are a bunch of heroes every time they go on tour in the states.” - Garrison Keillor,A Prairie Home Companion.
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“…their great humour and superb musicianship make them one of the finest bands on the circuit.” - Rogue Folk Review.
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“The music may be pure old time Celtic,but the drive and enthusiasm are akin to straight ahead rock and roll.” -Winnipeg Free Press.
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More at: www.tannahillweavers.com

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WHAT picture? Click "View Web Version" if you're reading on your mobile device and you don't "get the picture..." ================================== ======================== ABOUT THE GUIDE'S EDITOR: Longtime journalist, with awards for print, publishing, broadcasting, more, including the Music Legend Award, presented to just one honoree each year at the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival. Creator and host of radio's award-winning "Tied to the Tracks" that introduced an Acoustic Americana / acoustic renaissance format to Los Angeles radio, with live in-studio performance-interviews with wonderful musicians; over 300 performing guests including GRAMMY and Juno winners and nominees.